Re: $DISPLAY and xdm

2000-11-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
im not sure if it makes a difference but i always set the DISPLAY enviornment to :0.0 not just :0 also try setting the enviornment to localhost:0.0 instead of orca:0.0 it may be a resolver issue. nate On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Karsten Bolding wrote: karste >As user kbk - logged in via xdm - on orca.

Re: $DISPLAY and xdm

2000-11-16 Thread David Z. Maze
Karsten Bolding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KB> As user kbk - logged in via xdm - on orca. KB> xhost + KB> access control disabled, clients can connect from any host You realize that this is a Really Bad Idea (TM), right? KB> As user lene (also on orca) KB> setenv DISPLAY orca:0 KB> xterm KB> xte

$DISPLAY and xdm

2000-11-16 Thread Karsten Bolding
As user kbk - logged in via xdm - on orca. xhost + access control disabled, clients can connect from any host As user lene (also on orca) setenv DISPLAY orca:0 xterm xterm Xt error: Can't open display: orca:0 Karsten -- *** Karsten Bolding

minor weirdness with DISPLAY and xdm

1997-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
I remember when I logged in with xdm, my DISPLAY variable used to be set to ":0.0". Now it is set to "kite:0.0". I haven't done anything I can think of to change it besides upgrading the X packages. I have tried inserting lines in the Xsession files, etc, to force my DISPLAY back to ":0.0", and not