Re: Emacs crashed trying to connect to X display

[David Kastrup]

"Chris Moore" <address@hidden> writes:

> I usually run Emacs inside GNOME, but today I'm ssh'ed into the box, running
> Emacs in an ssh terminal window.
>
> (emacs:30371): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
>                                                         address@hidden:~$
>
> I have the 'EDITOR' environment variable set to point to a shell script which
> does:
>
> /usr/local/bin/emacsclient "$@" ||
> /usr/local/bin/emacs       "$@"
>
> and I also have "DISPLAY=:0.0" in the environment (which I probably
> shouldn't).

This is crazy.  You know that ssh will forward an X session when
called with ssh -X?  Of course, you must not warp the DISPLAY variable
to a nonsensical value if you want to make use of that.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum