Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:20:31 -0500 From: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> To: 'paul beard' <paulbeard@mac.com>, 'Brian McCann' <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: X Remotely on a Win2k Box Message-ID: <000501c28ac3$a1754c30$1500a8c0@dogbert> In-Reply-To: <3DD1B6E9.1080506@mac.com>
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No go. Tried host:0.0, host:0, nothing worked...still ran on the console. I am starting up X windows using "startx"...should I be using something different? Thanks, --Brian -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of paul beard Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:20 PM To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X Remotely on a Win2k Box 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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