Can't connect via gnuclient

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Apr 5 23:05:20 EDT 2008


skip at pobox.com writes:

 >     % gnuclient -nw -q
 >     gnuclient: No such file or directory
 >     gnuclient: unable to connect to local

I suspect that what's not being found is a Unix-domain socket.  Unless
you compile XEmacs with special configuration regarding gnuserv, there
should be a socket /tmp/gsrvdir$UID/gsrv where UID is your user's ID.
I suspect that this is related.  Does that file exist?  Does it have
the right permissions?  (Does Leopard use ACLs?)

 > Is it somehow related to the new way the DISPLAY environment
 > variable works on Leopard's X11?

I doubt it.  If gnuclient can't find an X server it should just fall
back to -nw.



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