[GLLUG] Terminal funkiness

[Matt Graham]

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 20:22, after a long battle with technology, 
Mike Szumlinski wrote:
> [szumlins@Dual-Gig:~]: xmms
> bash: xmms: command not found
> [szumlins@Dual-Gig:~]: tcsh
> [Dual-Gig:~] szumlins% xmms
> (app starts)
> [Dual-Gig:~] szumlins% bash
> bash-2.05a$ xmms
> (app starts)
>
> I believe this has something to do with my .cshrc file and the
> DISPLAY variable, but I don't know how to change that stuff if bash. 
> In my .cshrc file, i have this:
>
> setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0
>
> I thought it had something to do with 'export' in bash, but I don't
> remember and couldn't find it with a quick google.  Anyone know how
> to do this in bash?

export DISPLAY=localhost:0

However, if your $DISPLAY is not set up right, you'll get a different 
error message, something like Xlib: "connection to ":0.0" refused by 
server", not "command not found".  Try this:  in bash, do "echo $PATH", 
then do the same from thing from tcsh.  They should be identical.  If 
they aren't, find where your PATH is being set in ~/.cshrc , then copy 
that line over to .bashrc , changing the "setenv PATH" to "export 
PATH=".  That might ehlp.  

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