Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 15:04:13 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to use X window server/client mode? Message-ID: <4025DF6D.4030503@realss.com> In-Reply-To: <20040208060924.GC43410@dan.emsphone.com> References: <LAW11-F15zAZOTLocEB0004df4e@hotmail.com> <20040208060924.GC43410@dan.emsphone.com>
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Oh how nice! I start with ssh -X and everything goes okay. Thank you. Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Feb 08), Zhang Weiwu said: > > >>Hello. I know this looks like a dump question ... I wish I can find a easy >>tutorial, but a quick google search didn't give me one. Perhaps you can >>tell me where to find a good tutorial. >> >>Now I have freebsd 5.2 & gnome 2 running on my notebook, X is started by >>gdm. My friend's computer run RedHat linux 9. I login to gnome, ssh login >>to my friends computer in a xterm, set $DISPLAY to be "mynotebook:0.0". >>Then I type "gedit", I'm expecting gedit to come out on my desktop, but I >>got "cannot open display" message. >> >> > >Try with xterm, which generates much better error messages. Possible >causes: DISPLAY variable not exported, nothing listing on >mynotebook:0.0, "host +" or "xhost +otherserver" not run on mynotebook. > >If you add the -X flag to ssh, ssh will automatically set $DISPLAY on >the other end and tunnel the display back to the local server. > > >
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