xhost/display oddities

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:56:28AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> 
> However if I try and run xhost it says 'unable to open display ""' and
> similarly xlsfonts says the same thing.
> 
> How does rxvt know to try and open display 127.0.0.1:0.0 whereas xhost
> and xlsfonts (and others presumably) just have nothing for the
> display?
> 
> It's fixable by setting DISPLAY in the environment but it's a bit
> confusing.
> 
Even sillier, if I set DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 then xhost and xlsfonts
work but rxvt fails and says "can't open display 127.0.0.1:0.0".

There's something distinctly odd about all this!

-- 
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)