i have vnc running on my suse linux machine and i can open up a vnc window on my windows xp machine and everything works great except that I can't run apps from vnc on the windows box that require a new window to open. for instance if i type 'emacs &' in the vnc window then it says xclient is not authorized to connect to server.

I tried messing my with my DISPLAY environment variable by setting it to 192.168.100.1:1 (this is what i type in vnc to connect to my linux machine)

While that setting made it so the error message didn't come up it still didn't show the emacs window. I can see the emacs process is running by typing ps.

what should i do here? will settings that i make here affect me when i'm sitting in front of the linux box?

thanks!

Try:

export DISPLAY=:1.0

If that does not work, then try each of :

export DISPLAY=:2.0
.
.
.
export DISPLAY=:9.0


If any of these work and you want an explanation of *why* it works, let me know.

- Dave

yes export DISPLAY=:1.0 worked ... thanks

if you want to explain why i'm all ears!!