Firefox doesn't start anymore

[Steven Schweda]

> This is odd, because previously I didn't
> need to set a display.

Knowing nothing, I'd say that what would
_really_ be odd would be if you could get
Firefox (or any other graphical application)
to work if you did _not_ have DISPLAY set
properly.

What seems more likely to me would be that
your DISPLAY was being set automatically
(somehow) before, but isn't now.

echo $DISPLAY

What are you sitting at, an HP-UX
workstation, some PC running some X server,
a vt220, ...? If you're not sitting at an
HP-UX workstation, then how is what you are
sitting at connected to the HP-UX system,
Telnet, SSH, serial line, ...?

[H. van Niekerk]

It is a C3700 PA-RISC workstation running CDE. To run firefox, I start a terminal en run a simple script (./startfirefox that just contains "/opt/firefox/firefox &" without quotes) that hasn't changed since I installed firefox the first time.

[Jitesh purohit_1]

Does the same version of firefox works on any other system running hpux 11.11

Jitesh

[H. van Niekerk]

I only have 1 system running HP-UX.

[Pete Randall]

Well, we can worry forever about how DISPLAY was being magically set before - or, we can just go ahead and fix this problem:

echo $DISPLAY

(should return nothing)

export DISPLAY=(ipaddress):0.0
./startfirefox


Pete

[H. van Niekerk]

With DISPLAY set like that, I still get the same Gtk error.

[TTr]

> With DISPLAY set like that...

Like what? Did you type what patrick wrote verbatib or did you put the ipaddress of your workstation in place of (ipaddress)? You don't post back much information about what people are asking you!

[H. van Niekerk]

First, I used the IP address:

$set DISPLAY=10.0.0.17:0.0

Then I used my little ./startfirefox script, with no result. Next, I su-ed to root, again "set DISPLAY=10.0.0.17:0.0", and used tusc with the earlier suggested options to start firefox. This gave the mentioned Gtk WARNING.

[Pete Randall]

Why the "set DISPLAY" syntax? What shell are you running?

You also seem to have set the DISPLAY for your root session rather than your regular user session (if I'm reading your comments correctly).


Pete

[H. van Niekerk]

Sorry, "set DISPLAY" is a typo. It is "export DISPLAY". I'm running ksh.
Yes, I exported DISPLAY for both. First for the normal user, but that didn't give any response. So, in order the get output from tusc, I su-ed to root, did it again and got the Gtk WARNING.