From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 10 7: 4: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7BE537B401 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 07:04:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mxzilla1.xs4all.nl (mxzilla1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0382743E6E for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 07:04:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from henkonk@xs4all.nl) Received: from xs1.xs4all.nl (xs1.xs4all.nl [194.109.3.11]) by mxzilla1.xs4all.nl (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gAAF41ca084021 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 16:04:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (henkonk@localhost) by xs1.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAAF41H09530 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 16:04:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from henkonk@xs1.xs4all.nl) Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 16:04:01 +0100 (CET) From: Henk To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: xhost: unable to open display "" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021110140932.I2803-100000@xs1.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG llo all, I use ssh to connect to My.FreeBSD.Machine from My.Main.Machine running FreeBSD and xdm. xwin is running properly on My.Main.Machine. When trying to run mozilla on My.FreeBSD.Machine I get the error: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: "" When running xhost I get the following error: xhost: unable to open display "" I do not export $DISPLAY=My.FreeBSD.Machine:0.0 It's supposed automatically set to My.FreeBSD.Machine:X+1.0 when I log in with ssh. help anyone? TIA, Henk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message