Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:24:04 -0700 From: Aaron Dalton <aaron@daltons.ca> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with X11 Forwarding Message-ID: <43CA8534.4010306@daltons.ca>
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I thought this might be the best place to post the question. I am running FreeBSD5.4-RELEASE. For the sake of argument, let's say I am trying to get the port editors/fte running on my Windows box via an SSH tunnel. I am running WindowsXP, cygwin's X11 server, and PUTTY. As far as I can tell from all my Googling, this should actually be quite simple: - openssh is setup on FreeBSD with X11Forwarding=yes - I start the cygwin X-server (XWin -ac -multiwindow) - Putty is configured to forward X11 sessions - I connect via Putty - running '$ fte' from the FreeBSD command line should supposedly open everything up now on my Windows box, but it does not. From what I understand, when I connect now via Putty the env variable DISPLAY should be set. But it is not (which is the error fte gives me when I try to run it). If I try to manually set the DISPLAY variable (I tried localhost:0, localhost:0.0, ip:0, ip:0.0) it still doesn't work. editors/fte is fully installed (with X11libs and all that) but I wonder if there is more I need installed on the FreeBSD end to make things work. I really appreciate your time and any assistance you can render. -- Aaron Dalton | Super Duper Games aaron@daltons.ca | http://superdupergames.org
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