From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 6 4:43:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from usgs.gov (igsmn002.wr.usgs.gov [130.118.41.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C8B114CA4 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 04:43:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsowders@usgs.gov) Received: from IGSMN-Message_Server by usgs.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Sun, 06 Jun 1999 04:43:10 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 04:42:31 -0700 From: "Robert Sowders" To: bright@rush.net, rseals@vdsi.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE/X/FreeBSD question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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