XCLOCK Display error

Navina · 12-08-2016, 03:28 AM

Hi experts,

when we tried to run xclock from home directory we are getting an error as

./x
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":" in "nextract" command
No matches found, authority file "-" not written
xauth nmerge /home/x.v-navija
setenv DISPLAY localhost:
export DISPLAY=localhost:

How to resolve this error. we want to get the xdisplay run

smallpond · 12-08-2016, 09:53 AM

What is in your "x" script?

jayjwa · 12-08-2016, 07:50 PM

You need an X Server running before you can display xclock on it. Try 'startx' from the command line. It starts the server itself and uses ~/.xinit, usually to run a window manager or whatever you choose in there. Once that's up, you can display X programs there.

jpollard · 12-11-2016, 12:26 PM

Don't do that.

If you are logging with ssh and X forwarding is enabled, so is the necessary display environment variable set.

Doing that in the script or in the profile is wrong. The environment will almost ALWAYS be wrong and you will get this error.

What are you actually trying to do?

BW-userx · 12-11-2016, 12:59 PM

Code:

userx@voided1.what~>> sudo xbps-install -Suy xclock
[*] Updating `https://lug.utdallas.edu/mirror/void/current//x86_64-repodata' ...
[*] Updating `https://repo.voidlinux.eu/current/nonfree/x86_64-repodata' ...


Name   Action    Version           New version            Download size
libXaw install   -                 1.0.13_1               212KB 
xclock install   -                 1.0.7_3                24KB

Code:

userx@voided1.what~>> xclock
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
^C

did you try just typing xclock in the cli?
my xclock worked.

as @jpollard asked, what exactly are you doing, and what environment are you in while trying to do it?