Re: Bug in parsing $DISPLAY

[Paul Fox]

> Paul Fox wrote:
> > GNUSTEP GUI 0.7.8
> >     BACK 0.7.8
> >     BASE 1.3.3
> > 
> > If you have your environment variable like this:
> > 
> >     DISPLAY=89.0.0.22:0
> > 
> > then the startup code fails to parse it correctly and you get weird X
> > errors about XCreateGC failing. In my environment, DISPLAY is set
> > by exceed hummingbird and it took me some time to realise this was what
> > was causing the problem. Setting it to 
> > 
> >     DISPLAY=hostname:0
> > 
> > made it work (well nearly but thats for another bug report :-) )
> > 
> 
> I rewrote this section to be more robust. Thanks for the report.

Thank you for your reply!

Now if only I could actually get gnustep to work! I am tearing my hair
out on MacOSX and I am using GNUstep as an alternate implementation
but I cannot get my app up.

Oh well...

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