On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:18:14PM +0200, Shawn Young wrote:

[...]

> Whenever I try to pull up an application which requires X when I am
> using screen I get an error telling me that I can't connect to the
> local X server.

You need to set the DISPLAY environment variable, most likely to :0. You
can test it by running:

$ DISPLAY=:0 X_PROGRAM

in a bash shell.

[...]

-- 
best regards
Thor Andreassen

_______________________________________________
screen-users mailing list
screen-users@gnu.org
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Reply via email to