Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!CASTOR.WUSTL.EDU!yuson From: yuson@CASTOR.WUSTL.EDU (John Yuson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8908171336.AA13518@castor.wustl.edu> Date: 17 Aug 89 13:36:17 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 > Just as it says on page 18, I do a "setenv DISPLAY joker:0" and from a wsh > window I type "xclock &", well I get an error "Xtoolkit Error: can't > open display". What did I do wrong??? > Pablo > pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu You might check to see if the X server is running in the background (uid root). If not, try starting your own with: "Xsgi &" or "X &" -- John Yuson Geer, almost a C.S.B.S. INTERNET: yuson@castor.wustl.edu Radiation Oncology Center 510 S. Kingshighway Blvd. "Life is fun." - Ben Hoff St. Louis, MO 63110 _The_Tao_of_Pooh_ (314) 362-2600 -- also: geer@yalecs Hochspannung Lebensgefahr