QueXtion about X11

Rob Warner rcw2@geocities.com
Fri Jan 30 11:50:00 GMT 1998


On Friday, January 30, 1998 2:48 PM, Arlindo da Silva 
[SMTP:arlindo@niteroi.gsfc.nasa.gov] wrote:
>
> > I've got Dial Up Networking, and understand I need to set the
> > DISPLAY
> > variable, but I'm not sure to what.
>
> set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
[snip]

Call me dumb, but I just use :0.0 - I thought specifying a hostname 
caused it to try & route the X packets & omitting it makes things 
slightly faster.  Or have I missed the point again?

cheers,

Rob

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