X Display Name Help

To run a demo you need a computer/workstation running the X Window System (the standard window system under Unix) and you need to know the name of the X windows display you are using. If you are accessing these pages via a proxy because you are behind a firewall, you will probably not be able to run the demos. (You paranoid people, stop using firewalls!)

If your WWW browser is running on your local workstation and you are not using a proxy, the display name probably is ec2-50-16-36-153.compute-1.amazonaws.com:0.

To find out what your display name really is, you can check what the environment variable DISPLAY is set to (e.g. by running the command echo $DISPLAY in a shell window). If it is set to some brief name, like ec2-50-16-36-153:0, you need to add the domain name, probably .compute-1.amazonaws.com, before the colon, to make it look more like ec2-50-16-36-153.compute-1.amazonaws.com:0. If it is set to somethink like :0 or :0.0, you should add host before the colon.

The format of the display name is host:number, where host is the name of the host where the X server is running, and number identifies which display/screen to use on that host. Usually, number is 0.

When communicating within a local network, hosts can usually be specified with a brief name, like ec2-50-16-36-153. For communication between arbitrary hosts on the Internet, you need to use full host names, like ec2-50-16-36-153.compute-1.amazonaws.com.