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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:30:06 -0500
From:      Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
To:        'Tim Kellers' <timothyk@wallnet.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Remote X from another BSD Box
Message-ID:  <004401c2ee91$009b6dd0$2f811581@garfield>
In-Reply-To: <200303192215.06888.timothyk@wallnet.com>

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Ok...I think I have a partial lack of understanding of how the display
numbers work.  I tried 0.0, and it said the connection was refused,
followed by "no protocol specified".  I also tried 0.2 on a longshot.
BTW, I'm running these commands from an xterm window....if that
helps/matters.

--Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Tim Kellers
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:15 PM
To: Brian McCann; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Remote X from another BSD Box


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
>
>
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