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OK, at a friends' advice i did this: - i decided that i am my IP address (is this correct?) - on my computer i typed xhost +friend.dartmouth.edu - i ssh'ed to friend.dartmouth.edu - i type 'export DISPLAY=<myip>:0' - it takes a few moments, then reports: xhost: unable to open display...

>> setenv DISPLAY name_of_box_to_display_on:0 >> gimp -display remote_machine:0 i don't have a servername as far as i know. i'm on a wireless network at a University and since i'm running os x on a laptop so my IP is always changing. how do i identify myself to the server? what i'm...

Thanks, but how do I tell the remote machine to open the display on my machine?

I can get new windows from my local server (if i type xterm or xemacs locally, it pops up new windows). however, when i am logged into a remote server, i invariably get a message which says: [zberke@tacos zberke]$ xterm xterm Xt error: Can't open display: I'm not sure if this is...