Re: "Can't open display" problems
On your local machine you need to edit "/etc/X11/xinit/xserverc". There's
a nice line that contains "-nolisten tcp" in it. Remove that and restart
X.
I had the same problem.
Robert
Thus spake Trevor Wood (twood@bu.edu):
>
> I just upgraded from potato to woody and found that I cannot open my
> display for X apps anymore. My hostname is MEDESIGN, so I used to set my
> DISPLAY environment variable to MEDESIGN:0. Now I have to set it to :0.0
> to run local X apps.
>
> However, this won't work when I try to run an X application from a remote
> ssh connection.
>
> This sounds like an embarrassingly stupid problem, but how do I fix it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Trevor
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