Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:40:20 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with X11 Forwarding Message-ID: <43CACF54.10901@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0601150942n6de501dbm3edae321aeba9589@mail.gmail.com> References: <43CA8534.4010306@daltons.ca> <ef10de9a0601150942n6de501dbm3edae321aeba9589@mail.gmail.com>
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Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 1/15/06, Aaron Dalton <aaron@daltons.ca> 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=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. >> >> > > 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/ > ssh -X is deprecated in many cases I noticed, so I suggest using ssh -Y. -Garrett
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