Trouble within screen

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Tue Feb 6 20:24:22 UTC 2007


On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:23:02PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> Everything seems to be fine, until I launch vim (not gvim - this is for
>> things like email composition in mutt).  Once I do that, I see the
>> following errors:
>> 
>> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

>Did you start screen while running X, then detach, and come back later
>and attach to screen without X running?  In that case you would still
>have the DISPLAY variable set inside screen since it was present when
>you created the screen session.  vim likes to set xterm title bars to
>useful information, which may need X access, so perhaps when it sees a
>DISPLAY variable set, it tries to access X and fails since it is no
>longer a valid DISPLAY to talk to.

You hit the nail on the head!  It was as simple as unsetting the
$DISPLAY variable.  The only problem was, I didn't know how, so I tried
Google "Linux unset display".  Heh, it turns out that "unset" is a
command :-)  Who knew?  Thanks a ton.
-- 

yours,

William

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