[argyllcms] Re: No protocol specified and no displays found

  • From: Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 19:42:32 +1000

Peter Smyth wrote:
No protocol specified
Dispwin: Error - Unable to open the default display

I'm not doing anything differently to what I've done before and it
used to work.  Any ideas?  I'm on linux, running as root.

Sounds like a Linux/X11 specific issue, nothing to do with dispwin.
(ie. try any running any X11 program like xeyes, and I would expect
you will get a similar message).

Basically there is an problem communicating to the X11 server. It could
be the $DISPLAY variable, X11 authorization, networking setup, using ssh etc. 
etc.
I'm not familiar with what can go wrong to really help much more than this 
though, sorry.

Graeme Gill.


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