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 and/or you are behind a firewall, you will probably not be able to run the demos.

If your WWW browser is running on your local workstation and you are not using a proxy, the display name probably is 18.220.140.5:0.

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 lips:0, you need to add the domain name, probably cs.chalmers.se, before the colon, to make it look more like 18.220.140.5:0. 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 lips. For communication between arbitrary hosts on the Internet, you need to use full host names, like 18.220.140.5.