I've seen as well. I think the DISPLAY variable gets changed after
dialing out. I am interested in a solution to this as well.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Stephen Clingerman wrote:
> Whenever I reboot, the splash screen dutifully reports that I am localhost.
> After logging in I am able to bring up xterms, etc. But after I dial out, I
> can no longer open any x-windows. From an xterm I had open, if I try to get
> another xterm, I get the message that the x-display 0:0 is unreachable (or
> something like that - I'm not home to tell exactly the message). If I
> shutdown the ppp session and log out, the splash screen shows that my
> hostname is now IPnn (nn differs from session to session). Loging back in
> and dialing out now allows me to open x-window stuff. I've looked in the
> .Xauthority file both before and after this occurs and I don't see anything
> unusual. Any ideas?
>
> Steve Clingerman
>
