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RE: Got 8 bits per pixel?
- To: Harold Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Subject: RE: Got 8 bits per pixel?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:14:37 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: Francis VIVAT <francis dot vivat at cetp dot ipsl dot fr>,cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Harold Hunt wrote:
> Francis,
>
> > from my pc (either Win or Cygwin), telnet to Solaris.
> > Then, in this telnet :
> > $ setenv DISPLAY my_pc:0
> > $ xterm &
>
> I'm a terrible X user, though I can program a thing or two :) Any
> particular reason why you set DISPLAY to my_pc:0 rather than my_pc:0.0? I
> was always under the impression that you were suppused to give both the
> display number and the screen number; at least, that's what I have always
> done, and it has always worked...
the format is host:display.screen
display is listening port - 6000;
screen is used to access for instance a second crt
or - AFAIR - XWin :0 -screen 0 800x600x16 -screen 1 800x600x16
and you can connect to localhost:0.0 and localhost:0.1. By default it's
always screen 0.
bye
ago
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