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 directoryıs look Right. I set the path required. Whenever I > attempt to run a program using X I get the error ³Can't open display² 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 _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
