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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers XWindows Question Post 53843 by RTM on Monday 26th of July 2004 10:31:51 PM
Old 07-26-2004
Quote:
I've seen in the past where you're supposed to do:

set DISPLAY="myMachine:0"

What in the world is the colon zero for?
See the man page for X. Every X server has a display name of the form: hostname:displaynumber.screennumber
This information is used by the application to determine how it should connect ot the server and which screen it should use by default (on displays with multiple monitors).

Maybe someone else has the answer to your first question.
 

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