Xterm related query
 

when i used the xterm command on my server then i get the following error
how i can go through it
can anybody plzz help me out

The i wrote was: xterm -bg purple

error:
xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
xterm: DISPLAY is not set

How did you log into the server? Is your console on an X server? You use the term 'on my server' which makes me think you may be trying to run an X application from a text-mode console. If you used something like ssh to login from a GUI console, then you could probably simply add the '-X' option to the ssh commandline:
This should result in a login shell where $DISPLAY is set to something like 'localhost:10', at which point you should be able to run X applications.

--- rod.