Unable to set DISPLAY localhost:0.0

[Paul Howarth]

Linux Beginner wrote:
> I installed FC2 (dual boot with Win2K); First i installed in Chr
> mode and later in installed on top of it in GUI mode; I chose to
> install the X pkgs but nevertheless i am facing problem while
> trying to set all the following 
> xhost + 
> xhost +localhost 
> DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ; export DISPLAY 
> DISPLAY=ipaddress:0.0 ; export DISPLAY 

What are you actually trying to do? Fiddling with xhost and $DISPLAY is 
a rather insecure way of running remote clients, compared with using ssh 
with X forwarding.

Paul.