Rob wrote:
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:27:20 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2006-02-22 10:17, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have been trying to figure out how to set the display name on my
computer. I have a program used with Xorg that gives me the error
message:
_X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for xenon:6000: hostname nor
servname provided, or not known
Error: Can't open display: xenon:0.0
also when starting or stopping Xorg I either get:
bad display name "xenon:0" in "remove" command or
bad display name "xenon:0 in "list" command
Your laptop can't resolve the name "xenon".
I have my XDISPLAY env variable set using (in Bash):
DISPLAY=xenon:0.0 export DISPLAY
xenon is the name of the machine
I think part of the problem is the setting of the hostname. This laptop
runs off of DHCP and I am not really sure about what I should do for
setting the hostname. The manual says to set HOSTNAME="" in rc.conf if
using DHCP, but then I get the amnesiac message upon boot. Sendmail
doesn't like that either and hangs during the boot process. So I just
set it arbitrarily to "xenon"
Note that the capitalization of rc.conf variables is *significant*. The
real rc.conf variable that you have to set to avoid the "Amnesiac" name is:
hostname="xenon"
I have read manual pages, searched the archives, but I am really confused
about all of this. Thank you for any help.
All this can be resolved by using `/etc/hosts'. Just add your hostname
there and point it to the 127.0.0.1 address. Then all programs should be
able to resolve it.
Thanks Giorgios,
I think that I have the hostname problem resolved. rc.conf has
hostname="xenon" and
/etc/hosts has: 127.0.0.1 localhost xenon
So now Xorg does not give errors on startup or shutdown like the
bad display name "xenon:0" in "remove" command or
bad display name "xenon:0 in "list" command
But when not setting the DISPLAY variable explicitely anywhere I still get the
error:
"out of display lists" upon starting the program I want from xterm
But then setting DISPLAY=xenon:0.0 export DISPLAY and then executing the
program then gives the error:
"Can't open display: xenon:0.0" so I guess I am back to square one.
Maybe I should call it a day and rest, haha.
Thanks,
Rob
Hi,
Sorry if you get this twice Rob as I mistakenly
sent my reply only to you without including the list
I had the same problem. Add this line to your
.xinitrc file
xdpyinfo -display :0.0
The hostname is not specified.
--Duane
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