Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:20:25 -0800 From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> To: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.rit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X Remotely on a Win2k Box Message-ID: <3DD1B6E9.1080506@mac.com> References: <000301c28aae$f353c050$1500a8c0@dogbert>
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Brian McCann wrote: > Hi all...I tried searching through the archives to find some > help...but there was WAY to much returned. So...here's my question. I > need to be able to open an X session (complete with KDE and all) from a > Win2k Box. I've got Xmanager for Win2k, and I can connect and get an > xterm session via ssh, but when I type startx, it starts up X on the > console. I would have thought it would have grabbed the name/number of > the display I was currently logged into to send the output to. Anyone > know how I can do this, or a good site with a how-to? what's your $DISPLAY value set to? If it's :0.0, you need to set it to be the host you're connecting from. try: export DISPLAY=<remotehost>:0.0 where <remotehost> is where your ssh connection originates. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/>; Miksch's Law: If a string has one end, then it has another end. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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