This will not interest 99% of you at all, but I figured my blog would be a smart place to file it away for personal reference. But, just for you loyal readers, I’ll cut it short, but just in case you’re curious…
I had a HECK of a time getting Thunderbird to run since switching to Xandros a few weeks back. There was some sort of GTK problem with connecting to the display. In the end, I had to do something that I knew had to be done, but I have never seen it done this way before. The strange line below in question is #3, and I still don’t completely understand what difference it makes if you leave out the IP like I did. But, it made all the difference in the world!
I found this post in this forum thread over at LinuxQuestions.org.
Thanks for the replies. I finally fixed the problem by combining all the advice I got from here. Here are the steps I followed:
1. As a normal user do a xhost + to allow anyone to connect to the local display.
2. become root using su -
3. Do an export DISPLAY=:0.0
4. Run the program
5. Grin like an idiot when it finally workesI added export DISPLAY=:0.0 to root’s .bashrc to allow it to always use the current display.
Thanks for the help.- Suramya
I just want to say I’m getting a little tired for not EVER getting a praise in your blog entries for solving these problems for you. How long ago did I tell you that you needed to take similar steps, but never did it. I kept waiting on you to get back to me (e.g. worked/didn’t work), but no, no response.
So, I’m going to let the world know what a stubborn guy you are and also let them know how smert I am for solving this. Me, Brandon Jaynes, Double Helix, http://www.brandonjaynes.com, hero of the world.
I swear I told you that you tried it, and you even tried some of that stuff while you were there. But anyway. *sigh* you sure you’re not female? :-p
Not only am I not female, but I can spell my own name!
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