From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 12 19:22:49 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 F358237B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:22:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from vms3.rit.edu (vms3.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD1443E42 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:22:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu) Received: from dogbert ([129.21.129.47]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with ESMTPA id <01KOSOLRQKW4Q7XX6K@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:22:32 EST Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:20:31 -0500 From: Brian McCann Subject: RE: X Remotely on a Win2k Box In-reply-to: <3DD1B6E9.1080506@mac.com> To: 'paul beard' , 'Brian McCann' Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <000501c28ac3$a1754c30$1500a8c0@dogbert> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal 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 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=: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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message