setenv DISPLAY :0 works! Thank you!

what I had before in the $DISPLAY variable 
was "$DISPLAY= computername:0"
Do you know why taking away the computer name
would work?
Just want to know more.
Thanks!




On Thursday 12 May 2005 16:23, Adriaan de Groot 
wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2005, Raphael Fan wrote:
> > I need to run a program that would open up
> > a screen in KDE. However, the shell keep
> > saying the display can't be opened.
>
> echo $DISPLAY
>
> in the shell; if nothing is set, then your
> environment is being damaged -- by _something_
> -- while or after starting KDE. You can work
> around it by probably doing:
>
> export DISPLAY=:0
>
> (or, in csh, setenv DISPLAY :0 )
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