I was getting the message Can't open display: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0.0 It terns out that by default on my FC4, X does not listen to tcp. You can enable listening to the TCP port by running gdmsetup as root or be editing the file gdm.conf The relevant setting is DisallowTCP If you want X to listen the tcp set this to false You will have to restart the X server after making changes. To run a program (prog) on the client (light.unix) which will have its display on the server (dark.unix) you need to 1) tell the server that you allow light.unix to talk to it with xhost +light.unix 2) start prog (on light.unix) with the command prog -display dark.unix:0.0 (or you can set the DISPLAY environment variable) I have not been able to get authentication working using xauth which should allow you to run programs without using xhost. -- Wojciech Komornicki