Bug 432439 - Problems with DISPLAY variable
Summary: Problems with DISPLAY variable
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: system-config-services
Version: 5.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Nils Philippsen
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Reported: 2008-02-12 00:57 UTC by Matthias Epple
Modified: 2008-12-03 10:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-12-03 10:06:35 UTC
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Description Matthias Epple 2008-02-12 00:57:29 UTC 
Description of problem:
I'm using vnc to connect to a CentOS 5.1 system. So basically RedHat Enterprise 
Linux 5.
When I do that, the display variable is set to "localhost.localdomain:1.0".
If it is like that, I cannot open the Service Configuration Tool.
My workaround is that I reset the display variable to ":1.0" in the
.bash_profile:
DISPLAY=`echo $DISPLAY | grep -o :.*`
export DISPLAY


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.9.4-1.el5.noarch

How reproducible:
Set DISPLAY variable to "localhost.localdomain:0.0" and run command in shell


Steps to Reproduce:
1. DISPLAY=localhost.localdomain:0.0
2. export DISPLAY
3. system-config-services
  
Actual results:
Window doesn't appear

Expected results:
Window appears

Additional info:
Comment 1 Nils Philippsen 2008-02-12 09:42:15 UTC 
Is system-config-services the only tool with this issue? Please check, whether
e.g. system-config-date and system-config-network exhibit the same problem or not.
Comment 2 Nils Philippsen 2008-12-03 10:06:35 UTC 
Closing due to inactivity.
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