On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:43:50PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently bought a laptop and am trying to use it to remotely manage
> my desktop computer. I login via a telnet session and set the DISPLAY
> variable (usually something like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0). Unfortunately
> when I try to start an X session from here (startx) it doesn't work.
You don't start an X server on the machine you telnet to, you start it on
the machine you're telnetting from.
startx
'open an xterm'
telnet laptop
export DISPLAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0
netscape&
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