From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Feb 5 5:52:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B76EE37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 05:52:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from alvin.unc.edu.ar (alvin.unc.edu.ar [170.210.248.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1422543F85 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 05:52:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from meschoyez@gtwing.efn.uncor.edu) Received: from gtwing.efn.uncor.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alvin.unc.edu.ar (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h15DqFA18696 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:52:15 -0300 Received: from lcd (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gtwing.efn.uncor.edu (8.11.6/linuxconf) with ESMTP id h15DofY32185 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:50:41 -0300 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:56:41 -0300 (ART) From: Maxi X-Sender: meschoyez@lcd.efn.uncor.edu To: Newbies Subject: Re: Redirecting output in XFree86-4 under 5.0-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <1044451357.3e41101d8c62f@webmail.dc.turkuamk.fi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -> > I've recently installed XFree86-4 under 5.0-RELEASE and I didn't have a -> > solution to redirect the graphical output of a remote host to mine. -> > After enabling the remote host with 'xhost' in the localhost and setting -> > the 'DISPLAY' variable under the SSH session, when I start a graphical -> > program it returns 'unable to open display'. -> -> Well, what I was suppose to say was that, did you try to redirect -> the X using the -X flag in ssh? Then you wouldn't have to play -> around with xhost and the DISPLAY variable at all. -> -> ssh -X you@your.server -> Thanks! But it didn't solve the problem :-( SSH doesn't set the DISPLAY variable on the remote hosts. I think that those Linux boxes don't wanna give me his services anymore :-D o M@X To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message