[GLLUG] Terminal funkiness

[Mike Szumlinski]

I got it...thanks guys.  I just needed the right syntax for export in 
bash.

-Mike

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 06:04  PM, Matt Graham wrote:

> 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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