Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:15:06 -0500 From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> To: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.rit.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote X from another BSD Box Message-ID: <200303192215.06888.timothyk@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <003d01c2ee8d$bdc503c0$2f811581@garfield> References: <003d01c2ee8d$bdc503c0$2f811581@garfield>
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Are you setting your DISPLAY variable? for example: bash export $DISPLAY=(the IP address of the Open BSD box):0.0 or for the (t)csh >setenv DISPLAY (the IP address of the Open BSD box):0.0 where the :0.0 part is the number of the X display on your OpenBSD box Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Wednesday 19 March 2003 10:06 pm, Brian McCann wrote: > Hi all. I'd imagine this would be fairly simple since I got it to work > from Xmanager for Windows...but I'm having difficulties. I have 2 > boxes, both BSD (one FreeBSD, one OpenBSD). The FreeBSD box has a full > blown install of X with KDE and all kinds of stuff, the OpenBSD just has > a basic X installed with xdm. I'd like to be able to use the OpenBSD > box as a display for the FreeBSD box. I thought I'd just be able to ssh > into the FreeBSD box and run xmms, xcalc, xterm, whatever I wanted...but > no dice. Can someone help me out? > > Thanks, > --Brian > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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