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Old 06-19-2006
How to export the Display variable

I'm trying to open an xwindow on my Sun server. What am I doing wrong?

# echo $SHELL
/sbin/sh
#

# export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
DISPLAY=localhost:0.0: is not an identifier


Thank you!
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Old 06-19-2006
You're ksh/bash syntax with bourne shell; you need to separate declaration and export...

DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ; export DISPLAY
 
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