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Date:      Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:42:53 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: anybody onlist know about KVM stuff?
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In-Reply-To: <20100822202942.GB32780@thought.org>
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:29:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 	no X11, but i do need it.
>=20
> 	is there a way of getting, say, [c]twm configured remotely?=20

I don't think you have to. You just have to tell the X programs you want to
run on the server to connect to the X server on the machine you're working
on. Read the following HOWTO:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Remote-X-Apps.html

Suppose you are working on a machine called "desktop.thought.org", and the
server is "server.thought.org". You have to set up the X server on
desktop.thought.org to accept remote connections using xhost(1) or
xauth(1). You have to configure your firewall on desktop of allow connectio=
ns
on tcp/udp ports 6000-6063 from server.thought.org through.

Then you should be able to login to the server via ssh, and start e.g. an X
terminal on the display of the desktop by giving the following command in t=
he
ssh session:

    xterm -display desktop.thought.org:0 &

You could also set the DISPLAY variable on server.thought.org to point to
desktop.thought.org:0. That way you don't have to start every X program with
the -display argument.

>       i managed
> 	to have portupgrade finish succesfuully last night without breaking
> 	anything.  there were 33 things that failed, 0 skipped, and=20
> 	More than 450 ports successfully upgraded.  i checked with pkgdb
> 	-Favf; it worked.  what failed was related to the x11 drivers.

AFAIK, you don't need the drivers to do X forwarding. But you _do_ need the
X11 libraries and header files to compile X programs.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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