How DISPLAY works

[skretzig]

Can somebody explain to me what's the meaning of the numbers after the host in the definition on the DISPLAY variable?
And I also need to understand how the security works for this in order to invoque X windows.

Thanks a lot.

 

[christos]

server and window info. in most cases your only running one Xserver ie 1:0 (server 1 default window 0)

 

[christos]

server and window info. in most cases your only running one Xserver ie 1:0 (server 1 default window 0)
for security info:

http://www.google.com/search?q=magic+cookie+x11+security+xhost+xauth