Re: telnet session problem

From: Robert Gruener <rgruener@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:04:12 +0200

Stevoo wrote:

tim thanks for your reply. I tried that out but I'm getting the error "
xterm Xt error: can't open display: localmachine:0.0....what do you
mean by "export it" and do ?I have to be root on the remote machine?

Depending on your local environment, the display number can be any number, not only 0.0
Just enter echo $DISPLAY on the localmachine before setting it on the remote system.
Example:
On local machine give command xhost +
echo $DISPLAY ( which may return sth like :17.0 )
On local machine set export DISPLAY=localmachine:17.0 (where local machine is the name or ip of your machine and shell is bash)
Then start application on remote system.
You don't have to be root.

--

Gruss / Cheers

Robert
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