Bug 62830

Summary: cannot run with remote display
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Lee Howard <faxguy>
Component: printtoolAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Lee Howard 2002-04-05 22:24:51 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; T312461)

Description of problem:
xclock runs fine with remote display, not printtool

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
printtool -display x.x.x.x:0

where x.x.x.x is your local IP number

Actual Results:  Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/sbin/printconf-gui", line 162, in ?
    import gtk, gnome.ui, libglade
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 29, in ?
    _gtk.gtk_init()
RuntimeError: cannot open display

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2002-04-08 11:06:22 UTC
I don't think that printtool has a -display parameter.  Try setting the DISPLAY
environment variable.