[ale] Remote X - $ xhost: unable to open display ""

[Andrew Grimmke]

Thank you all,

Tried the gnome trick. Worked good. Think I am gonna use BlackBox,
however because the keybindings are so good.  

This remote X thing kicks butt.  My ancient laptop is now alot of fun to
work with.  

Andrew

On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 15:16, da Black Baron wrote:
> A good work-around I use is to simply start a gnome panel (panel & on
> the command line), which lets me run a local WM and access all the
> programs on the remote box via the panel.  You can color-code it with
> the panel preferences if you want to keep things from becoming
> confusing... :-)
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 14:57, Andrew Grimmke wrote:
> > Thanks Michael,
> > 
> > That worked.  I open a native X display, then I can telnet in and and
> > run an xterm on the local server and start x apps from that xterm.  How
> > do I run a window manager?  when I try to run a window manager from the
> > command line, it tells me there can't be more than one (the remote
> > computer is on and running Gnome/Sawfish).
> > 
> > Thanks again,
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
> > On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 13:13, Michael Kachline ext 2848 wrote:
> > > On 21 Sep 2002, Andrew Grimmke wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Try to do a remote XTerm.  I can't even get off the ground however.  I
> > > > don't know what I'm doing wrong.  I get the following.
> > > > 
> > > > localhost$ xhost +remotehost
> > > > xhost: unable to open display ""
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	Another possibility is that you are trying to run "xhost" before 
> > > actually getting into X on your local machine.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > This has got to be something simple and stupid I'm not doing. 
> > > 
> > > As a recap, try the following:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > localmachine$ ## Get into X windows.
> > > localmachine$ xterm &
> > > localmachine-xterm$ echo $DISPLAY
> > > ## Do you see anything here? Typically, you will see something like 
> > > ##"localmachine:0.0" If you do not see a value for $DISPLAY, then
> > > ## that is definately odd. Do as previous post suggested by:
> > > localmachine-xterm$ export DISPLAY="localmachine:0.0"
> > > 
> > > localmachine-xterm$ xhost +remotehost
> > > "remotehost" added to access list.
> > > 
> > > localmachine-xterm$ telnet remotehost
> > > ## Log into remote host
> > > 
> > > remotehost$ export DISPLAY="localmachine:0.0"
> > > remotehost$ xterm
> > > 
> > > You should now get an XTerm pop up on your screen.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 					- Mike
> > > -- 
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >  Michael Kachline
> > >  Systems Programmer
> > > 
> > >  Intec Telecom Systems
> > >  Atlanta, GA  30342
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