This is *NOT* remote X; everything is local. My X display, under
ICEWM, crashed to text console mode a few days ago. I restarted X.
Then I noticed mc (Midnight Commander) failing to launch gnumeric. It
also fails from an xterm. At first I thought it was just gnumeric.
Interestingly gnumeric does launch properly from the ICEWM menu, and I
can navigate to the file I want. I can't launch (u)rxvt from xterm
either so it's probably not gnumeric. A couple of sessions...

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[dev2][waltdnes][~/tv] echo ${DISPLAY}
:0
[dev2][waltdnes][~/tv] gnumeric bduquarterly.gnumeric
Cannot open display:
Run 'gnumeric --help' to see a full list of available command line options.

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[dev2][waltdnes][~] echo ${DISPLAY}
:0
[dev2][waltdnes][~] rxvt
urxvt: can't open display :0, aborting.
[dev2][waltdnes][~] urxvt
urxvt: can't open display :0, aborting.

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Could this be a weird permission problem? I tried checking with
"xhost" but got...

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[dev2][waltdnes][~/tv] echo ${DISPLAY}
:0
[dev2][waltdnes][~/tv] xhost
xhost: unable to open display ":0"
[dev2][waltdnes][~/tv] xhost +
xhost: unable to open display ":0"

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What the bleep?!?!?

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@???>
There are 2 types of people in this world
1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data