Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:15:11 +0100 From: "Daniel S. Haischt" <me@daniel.stefan.haischt.name> To: Richard Morse <remorse@partners.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to use X without installing X? Message-ID: <41E6C8BF.6060703@daniel.stefan.haischt.name> In-Reply-To: <35F05B14-6596-11D9-8196-000A956EB07E@partners.org> References: <35F05B14-6596-11D9-8196-000A956EB07E@partners.org>
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simply try to export/set the DISPLAY variable before
installing any additional software.
setenv DISPLAY foo.bar.com:0.0
^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
Your actual X-Server -´
If you are using a bourn shell you need to use export
instead of setenv.
Richard Morse schrieb:
> Hi! I have a FreeBSD 5 STABLE computer which is acting as a server.
> Because it doesn't need it, I don't want to install all of X -- my goal
> is that there shouldn't be anything that I can't do over ssh from a
> command-line.
>
> Unfortunately, Oracle doesn't agree with me.
>
> I need to install the Oracle client software on this computer -- it
> won't actually be an Oracle server, but does need to be able to connect
> to various other servers (mostly from PHP and DBD::Oracle).
>
> Apparently, in order to run the installer for 9i, it needs X. But, I
> figure it shouldn't need all of X, because I intend to connect via `ssh
> -X` from a different computer which is running X to actualy do the
> display. However, even once I've installed 'x11/xorg-libraries', when I
> `ssh -X` to the box $DISPLAY is not set.
>
> What is the minimum that I need to install to make this work?
>
> Thanks,
> Ricky Morse
>
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