X loses connection with server

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Wed Feb 20 18:22:51 PST 2008


John Altenmueller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not really sure how to explain this problem -- what basically 
> happens is I'm working away in wmii or fluxbox or whatever, and suddenly 
> I try to open an application, and then, well, it doesn't open. If I go 
> over to a running xterm and try to launch the application from there, I 
> get the following error message:
> 
> Can't open display :0.0

If you have a cron job or other script removing files in /tmp, make sure
it skips over /tmp/.X11-unix .

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering




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