ubuntu and glxgears

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> > 1. Security - you're not allowed to connect.
>
> I was root.

You were logged into Gnome as root?  Or you logged in as another user and
then changed to root?

> > 3. Why is it 10.0 rather than 0.0? Are you tunnelling X over ssh?
>
> That's indeed a puzzle. $DISPLAY is really "localhost:10.0" when I
> opened the terminal from GNOME.
>
> How could I know what $DISPLAY the active GNOME is using?

echo $DISPLAY

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