Re: X-win question

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On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Matt Turner wrote:

> I am running Xwin on my machine and I would like to connect to a remote
> machine and use it's xwin or at least it's xwin apps.  So I telnet in and
> login. Then when I try to load a program like netscape off the remote 
> server, It says something like display (0,0) no valid.  Any ideas what I 
> need to do to get the proper display settings?
> 

hmm .. u forget to set the Display environment to local machine

for csh
setenv DISPLAY yourhost_ip:0.0

for bash
DISPLAY=yourhost_IP:0.0
export DISPLAY

this should solve ...

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