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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!netcom.com!stanb From: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) Subject: Re: Netscape on FreeBSD can't open display other than :0.0 Message-ID: <stanbDzxy16.u7@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) References: <stanbDzwyEq.C4p@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 15:36:42 GMT Lines: 28 Sender: stanb@netcom8.netcom.com stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes: > Even setting the DISPLAY environment variable to koala:9 or >koala:0.0 (where koala is the name of the machine runing NetScape) fails >almost instantly with a "Can't open Display" error. > I can set it to grizzly:0 run xterm and up pops the xterm on >the other machine. Next I type netsacpe, and the error appears. There is >some discussion in the README file about being staticly linked against >X11R5 instead of X11R^, bit even so, at least one of the machines that >I am trying this on is runnig a R5 serever. > Has anyone else seen this beahviorm or is ti something pecuilar >about my system? BTW I downloaded the Linux version of Netscape, and It does't have this problem. Has anyone else got a FreBSD version displaying on a remote dispaly ? Is there any use in reporting this too Netscape (I prurchased a copy), or are we truly unsuported on FreeBSD as there README implies? -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1996 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.