The workaround to the X bug is to export the folowing variable in your
BFS enviroment:

<p> DISPLAY=IP:DISPLAY where display is 0.0 and IP is the IP of the machine
you're working on.  So in Bash,

<p> export DISPLAY=128.138.foo.bar:0.0 

<p>...would do what you want.  Most of the machines have their IP
taped to the side of the box or monitor.