Re: [SLE] export DISPLAY problems

On Monday 31 July 2006 12:28, Malte Neumann wrote:
[suse]$ xhost + hpux
[suse]$ rlogin hpux
[hpux]$ export DISPLAY=suse:0.0
[hpux]$ xclock
Error: Can't open display: suse:0.0

Try running 'xhost + hpux' from your ~/.xinitrc file, instead of from a
console. If i'm not mistaken, running it from a console in an X session
is useless.

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