DISPLAY routing

[otisthegbs]

hello ppl , i need to find a way to launch X11 apps from the terminal, i made a .login in my ~ with setenv DISPLAY :0, but theres two problems A: it doesnt work B: when i type setenv from the terminal it says setenv is not a command. where the heck do i get the setenv command?

thx yo's

[hayne]

What do you get when you type the following command in a Terminal window?

echo $SHELL

[otisthegbs]

yes im running the bash shell

[hayne]

In bash, you need to do:
export DISPLAY=:0

(setenv is a command in tcsh)