exporting the DISPLAY variable

[Gregory Nowak]

Thanks Johan, your suggestion actually worked, now let's see if wine can work with openbook.
Greg


On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:46:31AM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> The reason I want to export the DISPLAY variable as I indicated in another thread, is because when I run xterm or wine, they tell me they cannot open the display. Even so, typing "startx" works fine. If there is something else I should do, please enlighten me. If not, I will try your suggestion. Thanks.
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:11:21AM +0100, Johan Bergström wrote:
> > Try putting a semicolon before the 0.0, if you are running any windows
> > locally, xterms or whatever they may be, you dont usually need to touch
> > the DISPLAY variable. If you are planning on running windows on your
> > machine that are started on an other machine, you need to export the
> > DISPLAY variable on that other machine to point to yourip:0.0.
> > 
> > If you still need to export DISPLAY locally, just do export DISPLAY=:0.0
> > 
> > Johan.
> > 
> > On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm getting closer and closer to resolving my winehq/x problems. I've
> > > read that I need to export the DISPLAY variable with a value like 0.0.
> > > So, I did "export DISPLAY=0.0". When running xterm or wine after doing
> > > this, they pause for a while, and tell me this time that they can't open
> > > display 0.0. I've also tried 1.0 instead of 0.0 with no luck. I'm on my
> > > way with knowing how to export the DISPLAY variable, but how do I know
> > > what value to put after the = instead of the 0.0? Thanks for any help in
> > > advance.
> > > Greg
> > 
> > 
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