[RP] New user question

[Brian M. Hayes]

I know this may be a newbie question but we all have to start
somewhere.
I just installed the ratpoison on my machine and I can't seem to get it
to run. 
I always get the message "can't open display"
I shut down the KDE window mangager so I don't know why I wouldn't be
able to use the default(F7) window for ratpoison.
I "set DISPLAY=<My-IP>:0.0 and "export DISPLAY" and then I just run
"ratpoison".
I'm sure there is something simple I'm missing but I don't know what.

Thanks in advance,
Brian

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