[ale] what am I missing on remote X??

Stephan Uphoff ups at tree.com
Tue Sep 7 19:18:44 EDT 2004


Are you using ssh?

If yes is X enabled on the client config (or command line) AND
on the server?

What is you DISPLAY variable?

If you are not using ssh - is your X server started 
with "-nolisten tcp"?

	Stephan

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 19:04, Geoffrey wrote:
> I want to enable another machine to initiate the display of an image on
> my primary box.  I'm doing this with another box now, but for whatever
> reason, I'm missing something here.
> 
> For example:
> 
> main machine running X
> 
> secondary machine not running X, fires up 'display foo.jpg'
> 
> display foo.jpg runs on secondary box but displays on main machine.
> 
> This is driving me nuts.
> 
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
>                              AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995
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