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?
Are you telnetting through a masquerade or other firewall? If your
workstation's name is Fred, your DISPLAY will be "Fred:0.0". But if the
machine you're telnetting to can't resolve the name "Fred" to your IP
address, then maybe you should try changing your DISPLAY variable before
you telnet. Like so:
export DISPLAY=<your IP address here>:0.0
If you're telnetting through a PPP connection, then this IP address might
be different every time, but you can look it up like so:
ifconfig ppp0
Good luck!
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