From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 15 17:42:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5B016A420 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:42:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A6F43D46 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:42:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so745470wxc for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:42:00 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OAhUnf7F7z8Jb0nHCxitpcpwLLBhL3FbbcTOa3FshcV3WFJQ0yMjcvUTDL9JdfFtNUgFRVEwBogOWtE+Ma7kx5p5YL7OXpqC8rQNu0fEn+pxUeqz/lh20CumLu9bSm6SHfptAd/Y7RExtEUwDFUeB0Opf2yyzgoI9FZgpy4fLyA= Received: by 10.70.62.19 with SMTP id k19mr6579939wxa; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:42:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.66.9 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:42:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:42:00 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton To: Aaron Dalton In-Reply-To: <43CA8534.4010306@daltons.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43CA8534.4010306@daltons.ca> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with X11 Forwarding X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:42:02 -0000 On 1/15/06, Aaron Dalton wrote: > 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=3Dyes > - 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. > If you have cygwin installed why use putty? Just fire up xterm and use ssh -X. You could try this too: http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/ -------------------------------- Go sign the native flash for FreeBSD petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html