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Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Chris Green wrote:

> The trouble is that when I run 'xhost 127.0.0.1' in a cygwin window on
> my win2k system I just get the error:-
>     xhost: unable to open display ""

that would be DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0 xhost 127.0.0.1

But most likely you will have no access from windows. Run xhost from the 
session started via xdmcp.

> What should the DISPLAY environment variable be set to for the local
> display?  I'm used to setting it for remote systems but I can't get
> the right value for this one.

Fot the local display this is 127.0.0.1:0 or :0

bye
	ago
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