From: arlindo@niteroi.gsfc.nasa.gov (Arlindo da Silva)
Subject: X display
15 Feb 1998 22:12:21 -0800
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To: josef_g@email.msn.com
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Josef,

--- You wrote:
I have downloaded the X11 GNU Win32 X11R6.3 Binary Libraries (b18) as well
as the MI-X server. Coolview (01/26/98) is installed and all mounts are
text=binary. For some reason X programs don't want to run giving always the
error message "Error: Can't open display:" or "Error: Can't open display:
dddd" if the program was started with -display dddd.
-----

Try

set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

for using the local loopback (= X on the local pc screen).
For displaying remotely,

set DISPLAY=remoteaddress.edu:0.0

Are you forgeting the suffix ":0.0"?

-- 
Arlindo da Silva    
dasilva@alum.mit.edu


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