On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paul D. Filliman wrote:

> I am trying to get X started on my powerbook G4. I have installed
> Xfree86. The directory�s look Right. I set the path required. Whenever I
> attempt to run a program using X I get the error �Can't open display� I
> have tried setting DISPLAY to the machine name but it does not work. How
> can I set DISPLAY, or is there another problem.

Your Microsoft Mail User Agent is putting bizarre, non-standard characters 
into your posts making them hard to read.  

Have you made sure that you used the syntax "DISPLAY=hostname:0" ?  The 
"0" in this specifies the display number. 

When you say "whenever I try to run a program requiring X" does that mean 
that you actually have an X session running?

Oisin Feeley


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