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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 17 2002 - 09:31:01 CDT

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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