[ale] FC4 and setting $ISPLAY

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 12:19:40 EDT 2006


On 4/10/06, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> Pete Hardie wrote:
> > I may have discarded this before it got out, apologies if I didn't...
> >
> > I've recently installed FC4 and cannot get $DISPLAY set correctly to
> > allow xterms (or other stuff) from remote boxes to show up on my
> > display.  My attempt to Google for an answer are lost in a sea of
> > troubles about Nvidia cards and other hardware issues.  Anyone know
> > the secret handshake for this in FC4?
>
> How are you getting to the remote boxes?  ssh or telnet??

telnet.  Also, $DISPLAY is not valid locally  with localhost or the
machine name on the interface to the intranet.
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