Re: exporting display

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 01/07/05

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    On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 14:08 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
    > > Don't try this as root. I think the display for root is only
    > > accessible via the local machine. This is one of the reasons why the
    > > screen savers don't work when logged in as root.
    > >
    > > You should be able to get a normal user setup to perform this task.
    > >
    > > If you log in as root on the local machine and check the X logs you
    > > will see all sorts of WARNINGS like this....
    > >
    > > Try your configuration and setup as another user and see what happens.
    > >
    > > James Kosin
    >
    > As a normal user on both machines I get the exact same behavior. In
    > response to the other post, I only left out the :0 when I typed it. In
    > the commands I was actually using it.
    >
    > Any other suggestions? I don't see anything in Xorg.0.log. Maybe I
    > should install and run ethereal and make sure it's even trying?

    Have you tried using ssh with X forwarding ("ssh -X" or "ssh -Y") to
    connect to the remote machine?; that would not require you to fiddle
    with either xhost or the DISPLAY variable - it should just work.

    Paul. 

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