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From: Tobias Mandrup Johansen (tmj_at_rex2000.dk)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 02:38:57 CDT

hi,

it was an error in the startup script, i had previously defined a
DISPLAY variable in the vmd script ( I cant remember why) which i
forgot to remove, when removed it worked perfectly.

Thank you for the help

Tobias

On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 04:31 PM, John Stone wrote:

>
> Hi Tobias,
> Can you send me a copy of your VMD startup script, if you have
> customized
> it in any way, this could potentially cause the problem you're having.
> It could also be caused by something else however.
>
> Thanks,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 03:57:27PM +0200, Tobias Mandrup Johansen
> wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to run vmd 1.7.1 on hpux with -dispdev text set, but id
>> does
>> not seem to work.
>>
>> the output is
>>
>> Error: Can't open display:
>> Error: Couldn't find per display information
>> [1] 14602
>> [1] Exit 1 exec xterm -T vmd console -geometry 80x
>>
>> i thought it might have been something to do with a unset DISPLAY
>> environment variable, so I sat it to b309-79:0.0 where b309-79 is my
>> hostname, but that didn't work either.
>> so now I'm stuck (again).
>>
>> any help would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Tobias Johansen
>>
>>
>
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