RE: XWin Won't Run Without -screen Option

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > 
> > Did you ever read startx scripts, and various scripts in rc.d?
> 
> I use gdm (the GNOME version of xdm) and I agree in most 
> scripts the display is explicitly given but it is optional.
> 

Then check /etc/inittab for display

> > I will let you investigate this how default gets set to :0 on linux 
> > even if you do use X :0.
> 
> I did test it yesterday and you can leave the display number 
> away and then it will default to number zero. On my Red Hat 
> 6.2 installation I did the following as root: % telinit 3  # 
> switch to non GUI mode % X and the Xserver fired up without 
> any problems. Like you said I also did some reading of the 
> man page of Xserver on SUNOS 5.6, HPUX 10.20 and linux. And 
> they seem to take a default diplay number of zero if no 
> number is given. Unfortunately I can't test it on HPUX and 
> SUN because I don't have root permission on these machines. 
> The man page on SUN and linux are even the same, so I assume 
> these are the default MIT X man pages.


Did you do on RedHat 6.2

ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X ?  That might give you more information about
display. 

Anyway, This thread is off topic ML and off ML, please.


Suhaib

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