Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 04:42:31 -0700 From: "Robert Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> To: bright@rush.net, rseals@vdsi.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE/X/FreeBSD question Message-ID: <s759fc5e.055@usgs.gov>
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If you connect to your remote machine with ssh it automatically sets your DISPLAY env for you, so all you have to do is run xhost + name-or-ip.of .remote.machine >>> Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> 6/4/99 3:10:35 PM >>> On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Ray Seals wrote: > I use a FreeBSD 3.1 machine at work as my workstation. I'm running = Xfree86 on > it with KDE. I need to connect to the HP Openview box to pull up our = pretty > pictures. I have tried just using xterm to get to the box but I can't = get > Openview to come up. I assume that this is because term type issues. = =20 >=20 > What client can I use to access other Xservers from within KDE? for some reason I belive you have user error going on here. check points: after you telnet into the box with HP openview do you: 1) have the "DISPLAY" enviornment variable set "yourmachine:0" setenv DISPLAY your.ip.here.ok:0 i -or-=20 export DISPLAY=3Dyour.ip.here.ok:0 Have you given access to the remote machine? on the freebsd box open an xterm and type: xhost name.of.box.with.openview.on.it (you may want to investigate "xauth" (man xauth) for better security) When using X applications it is important to remeber to set the=20 DISPLAY variable on the remote machine running the application,=20 and allow access on the machine running the graphics via xhost or xauth. good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org=20 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
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