Are you setting your DISPLAY variable?  for example:

bash export $DISPLAY=(the IP address of the Open BSD box):0.0

or for the (t)csh

>setenv DISPLAY (the IP address of the Open BSD box):0.0

where the :0.0 part is the number of the X display on your OpenBSD box

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT



On Wednesday 19 March 2003 10:06 pm, Brian McCann wrote:
> Hi all.  I'd imagine this would be fairly simple since I got it to work
> from Xmanager for Windows...but I'm having difficulties.  I have 2
> boxes, both BSD (one FreeBSD, one OpenBSD).  The FreeBSD box has a full
> blown install of X with KDE and all kinds of stuff, the OpenBSD just has
> a basic X installed with xdm.  I'd like to be able to use the OpenBSD
> box as a display for the FreeBSD box.  I thought I'd just be able to ssh
> into the FreeBSD box and run xmms, xcalc, xterm, whatever I wanted...but
> no dice.  Can someone help me out?
>
> Thanks,
> --Brian
>
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