Arnie Stender wrote:
Hello,
Back when I did this for a living I used to remotely display all kinds
of X applications to my local desktop. I always thought that functionality
was built into the X-Server. I can't seem to make it happen. I have a
number of workstations connected to a KVM and I have my good keyboard
connected to them. Now I have this new BLFS workstation I am building and
I want to run all the build processes on that system but use my normal
desktop and keyboard. I have killed the firewall, run xhost +, and have
been trying to run firefox and xterm from the BLFS system and display the
windows on my other desktop. All I get is errors. For example when I run
'xterm -display stender3:0' I get: "xterm: Xt error: Can't open display:
stender3:0". Once again either something has changed or I am missing some
simple but key factor. Seems to me I used to remotely display an entire
desktop but that may have been when all I had was an X-terminal. When I
tried that I got display in use errors. If anyone can point me in the
right direction I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance. I didn't say it
before but I killed the firewall and ran xhost + on stender3 where I
expect to see the xterm pop up. From what I can find in man pages and on
the web it looks like it should still be possible.
I'm not sure about xhost +, but 'ssh remote-host' works fine if
configuration is right (ForwardX11 yes on client, X11Forwarding yes and
XAuthLocation /opt/xorg/bin/xauth on server).
Another alternative is to use tigervnc.
-- Bruce
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