Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:57:31 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Gary Hartl" <ghartl@gmail.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Running X without a videocard Message-ID: <20081119175731.ac9a0c4e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <001101c94a58$f5da1f20$e18e5d60$@com> References: <006b01c949da$2985e9f0$7c91bdd0$@com> <20081119112554.R6005@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <001101c94a58$f5da1f20$e18e5d60$@com>
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:10:28 -0500, "Gary Hartl" <ghartl@gmail.com> wrote: > when i do this: > export DISPLAY=192.168.0.100:0 > xterm > > first it tells me that export can't befound, I guess that is because it is a > built it. Important question here: What's your shell? If you're using FreeBSD's standard dialog shell, the C shell, export won't work because it's from sh or bash. > So I added to my .profile the following > DISPLAY=192.168.0.100:0 > export DISPLAY > Logged out and logged back in. > Alas no display variable > When i run xterm it tells me that there is not display variable. Make sure you're using bash (see your shell setting from the chsh command or echo $SHELL). If you're using the C shell, you can use the setenv command instead. % setenv DISPLAY 192.168.0.100:0 % xterm See the advice regarding xhost in order to have the correct permissions to run the applications from the desired X server. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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