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[John P. Looney]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:43:38AM +0100, Liam Bedford mentioned:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:58:32AM +0100, John P. Looney came forth with:
> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:22:47AM +0100, hrishy samant mentioned:
> > > while starting zzplayer i get the following message
> > > Xvalib error display not set .where is the file to
> > > configure the environment variables like display.when
> > > i say $env it lists all the environment variables i
> > > have looked into bash and bash_history,but without
> > > luck.could anbody help. 
> >  It most likely should be in in .bashrc - stick it in yourself, with;
> >  export DISPLAY=hostname:0
> >  Where "hostname" is the name of the machine with the video card in it.
> Hmm.. this is in general a bad thing unless you know what you're doing.
> 
> If you are trying to make something appear on a different screen, then you
> need to set DISPLAY to something (as Kate said).

 If display isn't set, that'll fix it. It may make a different error, but
it'll fix that one :)

Kate

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