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Re: Running remote X apps
- To: "Timothy J. Massey" <tmassey at modernmerchant dot com>
- Subject: Re: Running remote X apps
- From: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:35:02 +0100 (MET)
- Cc: "cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Timothy J. Massey wrote:
>
> D:\WIN32\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>xhost +204.238.175.35
> xhost: unable to open display ""
>
It seems, that your display enivironment variable is not set
try xhost -display 127.0.0.1 +204.238.175.35
or (for command.com)
set DISPLAY=127.0.0.1
xhost +204.238.175.35
of (for bash)
export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1
xhost +204.238.175.35
you can also try to leaveout the '+'
HTH
ago
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