From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 12 18:20:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7445D37B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:20:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BF3943E75 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:20:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([12.231.115.57]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021113022026.NRMQ15364.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@mac.com>; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 02:20:26 +0000 Message-ID: <3DD1B6E9.1080506@mac.com> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:20:25 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021107 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X Remotely on a Win2k Box References: <000301c28aae$f353c050$1500a8c0@dogbert> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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=:0.0 where is where your ssh connection originates. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ 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