Chris Burns said: > Hey all, > > I dotn' think my $DISPLAY variable is set correctly. I'm trying to run > an X program on a remote computer through ssh. It says:
first, be sure that the server that you are sending the X client to is accepting connections, by default debian systems do NOT accept TCP connections for X. You can do a quick test by just telnetting to port 6000 (the default for display 0) on the X server machine from the machine which runs the client. If it connects, skip the next step, if not .. if not then I would do 'grep -nri "nolisten tcp" /etc/*' and remove any references that comes up(backup the files before you change them if your paranoid. Then you must restart the X server, and/or the display manager (kdm/gdm/xdm/etc). Once it comes back up, try the telnet test again, and see what happens. if it works, then go to the remote machine, and set the enviornment, I usually do (this is bash syntax, and I think sh too): export DISPLAY=_x_server_system_:0.0 and on the X server system: xhost +_x_client_system_ then try to run your app, I reccomend FIRST running something simple like xclock just to be sure the connection works. Then you can try something more complicated. if your local display is something other then 0(this is very unlikely but possible), open a terminal on the local system and check the enviornment variabls, try the command 'set' by itself and look for DISPLAY, on my laptop here it says: DISPLAY=:0.0 HOSTDISPLAY=shadow.aphroland.org:0.0 good luck. There are other ways to do X as well. There is tunneling over SSH, there is VNC, and other thin client solutions, some of which are commercial. I personally use SSH wherever possible, though some systems I have to use the traditional method because the systems lack SSH and it's not worth installing SSH on them(in some cases it could take several hours to compile the needed libs and tools to build ssh from source). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
