On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, der.hans wrote: > > and thus his 'xterm' should have said '192.168.2.100:0' if he truly wished to > > display it remotely. > > Default is 0, so it's not needed. Do you have an example? kids:~$ export DISPLAY=192.168.0.2 kids:~$ xlogo Error: Can't open display: 192.168.0.2 kids:~$ export DISPLAY=192.168.0.2:0 kids:~$ xlogo & [1] 20909 kids:~$ The X(7) man page says "The display number must always be given in a display name." Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/