Re: Display issues

[Andrew Chung <anderoo@ac111.resnet.cornell.edu>]

> Everytime I run anything from the command line that requires x I get one of
> these errors:
> 
>    - unable to open display
>    - cannot connect to X server
> 

It means just that - it can't connect to the x server. You need to run the
programs either in xterm (or equivalent) or set the DISPLAY env variable. 
In bash you'll do something like :
	export DISPLAY=':0.0'
This will tell the programs to display to your local xserver. 

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