From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 19:28:25 2003 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 0FA5C37B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:28:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from vms4.rit.edu (vms4.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C22A43F75 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:28:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu) Received: from garfield ([129.21.129.47]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #30660) with ESMTPA id <01KTQ3SP8S0AVBIMVV@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:28:11 EST Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:30:06 -0500 From: Brian McCann Subject: RE: Remote X from another BSD Box In-reply-to: <200303192215.06888.timothyk@wallnet.com> To: 'Tim Kellers' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <004401c2ee91$009b6dd0$2f811581@garfield> 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 Ok...I think I have a partial lack of understanding of how the display numbers work. I tried 0.0, and it said the connection was refused, followed by "no protocol specified". I also tried 0.2 on a longshot. BTW, I'm running these commands from an xterm window....if that helps/matters. --Brian -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Tim Kellers Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:15 PM To: Brian McCann; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote X from another BSD Box Are you setting your DISPLAY variable? for example: bash export $DISPLAY=(the IP address of the Open BSD box):0.0 or for the (t)csh >setenv DISPLAY (the IP address of the Open BSD box):0.0 where the :0.0 part is the number of the X display on your OpenBSD box Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Wednesday 19 March 2003 10:06 pm, Brian McCann wrote: > Hi all. I'd imagine this would be fairly simple since I got it to > work from Xmanager for Windows...but I'm having difficulties. I have > 2 boxes, both BSD (one FreeBSD, one OpenBSD). The FreeBSD box has a > full blown install of X with KDE and all kinds of stuff, the OpenBSD > just has a basic X installed with xdm. I'd like to be able to use the > OpenBSD box as a display for the FreeBSD box. I thought I'd just be > able to ssh into the FreeBSD box and run xmms, xcalc, xterm, whatever > I wanted...but no dice. Can someone help me out? > > Thanks, > --Brian > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message