Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:07:49 +0000 (GMT) From: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Running X-clients on remote hosts. Message-ID: <20021219184204.I958-100000@aqua.lan.palfreman.com>
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How can I allow Xfree86 to listen for network connections again? I certainly used to have no problem doing this, and I don't see anything about this specific and probably very simple problem in the handbook or googling. I'm running an X server on my workstation (Xfree86 4.1) on my workstation (FreeBSD 4.6.2-p3) and I wan to have X-clients connect from other machine, for example xload. So, on logged into the remote host (using bash) I enter "export DISPLAY=wks:0" and on my workstation I enter "xhost +". Then on the remote host I enter "xload &" and all I get is "Error: Can't open display: wks:0" Then, if I go to a virtual terminal on my workstation (i.e. press ctrl-alt-F3) and enter "export DISPLAY=wks:0" then "xhost +" I get 'xhost: unable to open display "wks:0"'. If I replace the (DNS-valid) hostname with localhost exactly the same thing happens. I've tested this from a friend's Windows 98 box which has Hummingbird Exceed installed on it, and there is no problem running X-clients on it, by sshing in and doing "export DISPLAY=ant:0". So I know the problem is with my workstation's X server. So what should I do to make X network aware? It currently only seems to work as "export DISPLAY=:0" TIA, Bill. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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