* Joe Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-07-31 04:37 +0200]:
> I use DHCP, and I would like to use an IP variable (If one exists) to
> set my DISPLAY option...

To answer to your question: there's no such variable, but two special
hostnames: »localhost« and the your machine's local hostname, so setting
        export DISPLAY=localhost:0
would make it work.

But doing that would be using the X Server's tcp socket, which is
deprecated for security reasons. The Debian people even added "-nolisten
tcp" to their xserverrc, to switch that off.

Better use »local« (that is, unix domain socket) addresses, which are
faster, safer and don't depend on any local ones.

To do so, just 
        export DISPLAY=:0

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Johannes Franken
 
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