On 20030815.1751, Ben Barrett said ...

> I assume you're connecting from another 'nix boxen?  When I run an
> Xwindows service on my winbloze craptop, and connect to my local
> workstation, I have to "export DISPLAY=192.168.42.42:0.0" in the command
> shell, where 42.42 is the LAN address of the craptop, and I'm typing
> this into a bash shell, the ssh session onto my workstation.
> I'm still kinda confused about when setting the DISPLAY env var is
> required; I never have to do it with a remote machine (via WAN), but
> sometimes have to do it over my LAN -- I think it is from windoze, IIRC.

Ah yes, it was something about DISPLAY:0.0 or something.  I was trying
to export something similar too.  I'll have to play around with it some
more.
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