Newbie needs help opening browser window.

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raber Chris [mailto:cpraber@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:02 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Newbie needs help opening browser window.
> 
> 
> >You can read more about XDMPC at Cygwin/Xfree
> website.
> 
> That document shows how to use XDMPC, but not how to
> set it up.
> 

It is because you setup XDMCP at UNIX box and most UNIX boxes do this by
default when you install OS.  From Cygwin/Xfree you only use to connect.

> >What is your remote shell?  CSH or BASH.  If it is
> >bash then you need
> >
> >export DISPLAY=your_windows_ip_address:0.0
> 
> I am using bash and this is exactly how I am setting
> the DISPLAY variable. It's not working. Netscape sits
> there as a background job but never comes up on my
> XWin? Very wierd.
> 


Are you at a remote machine which is behind the firewall or maybe on another
premisses?  That might explain the hangs and lags.

Suhaib

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> >Suhaib
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