remote X

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, der.hans wrote:

> > and thus his 'xterm' should have said '192.168.2.100:0' if he truly wished to
> > display it remotely.
>
> Default is 0, so it's not needed.

Do you have an example?

kids:~$ export DISPLAY=192.168.0.2
kids:~$ xlogo
Error: Can't open display: 192.168.0.2
kids:~$ export DISPLAY=192.168.0.2:0
kids:~$ xlogo &
[1] 20909
kids:~$

The X(7) man page says "The display number must always be given in a
display name."

Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/