Re: Bug in gnome-terminal from gnome-core 1.0.53

[zucchi zedzone mmc com au (NotZed)]

Elliot tracked this down to a problem with esound, it actually has
nothing whatsoever to do with gnome-terminal.

esound parses the DISPLAY variable, but obviously doesn't understand
all possible syntaxes.

 Michael

> 
> rxvt 2.6.1 running locally sets the DISPLAY to unix:0.0, which does *not*
> specify a hostname.  Try, for example, setting your DISPLAY to unix:0.0 and
> starting xedit.  gnome-terminal mistakenly treats unix as a hostname and takes
> a long time to appear because of a resolver timeout.
> 
> linux(gnome-terminal)% printenv DISPLAY
> unix:0.0
> linux(gnome-terminal)% xedit
> linux(gnome-terminal)% gnome-terminal
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> [Several seconds elapse...]
> Can't resolve host name "unix"!
> 
> John
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