Charles Karney wrote:
>
> Jaime Mantel writes:
> Try applying the following patch to X11R6.4. I'm not sure whether this
> will fix your problem. We needed the patch since ssh wants to use
> DISPLAY=orion.pppl.gov:5 and NOT DISPLAY=:5, but the unpatched X11R6.4 was
> making DISPLAY=:5.
>
> Patch 2 (to stop orion.pppl.gov:5 being converted to :5)
> /usr/local/bin/patch -p0 -b <<'EOF'
> --- lib/X11/ConnDis.c.orig Fri Feb 6 17:12:07 1998
> +++ lib/X11/ConnDis.c Tue May 19 13:28:52 1998
> @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
>
> p = lastc;
>
> -#ifdef LOCALCONN
> +#if 0 /* Used to be #ifdef LOCALCONN */
> /* check if phostname == localnodename */
> if (phostname && uname(&sys) >= 0 &&
> !strncmp(phostname, sys.nodename, strlen(sys.nodename)))
> EOF
Thank you oh so very much. That did it. Did you come up with this
patch yourself or was it at x.org? I applied the three patches I found
there when I downloaded the source. But did not come across the one
you sent. But so far everything works as expected now.
Thanks Again,
Jaime Mantel