Re: cygwin x11

2006-02-22 Thread David Boyes
xinit twm xhost + This lets anyone on the planet connect to your X server and register to receive X events, including keystrokes and mouse movements. I'd strongly suggest being a little more restrictive in what hosts you allow to connect ('xhost +' turns off host authentication entirely).

Re: cygwin x11

2006-02-22 Thread John Summerfied
shogunx wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Bruce Gui wrote: does any one know how to install a application with graphic interface by cygwin (local) and x11 (remote)? I only know on localhost these steps should be done: start cygwin xinit twm netstat -a (listening on TCP port 6000) if you have

Re: cygwin x11

2006-02-22 Thread shogunx
it amazes me how many times that particular wheel has been reinvented. On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, John Summerfied wrote: shogunx wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Bruce Gui wrote: does any one know how to install a application with graphic interface by cygwin (local) and x11 (remote)? I only

Re: cygwin x11

2006-02-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 2/22/06, shogunx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it amazes me how many times that particular wheel has been reinvented. Poor guidance is as popular on the Internet as proper recommendations. And in case you wonder, my estimate for the half life of any information on Internet is 10 years. Rob --

Re: cygwin x11

2006-02-22 Thread shogunx
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Rob van der Heij wrote: On 2/22/06, shogunx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it amazes me how many times that particular wheel has been reinvented. Poor guidance is as popular on the Internet as proper recommendations. The same can be said of most other forms of communication.

Re: cygwin x11

2006-02-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 2/22/06, shogunx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And in case you wonder, my estimate for the half life of any information on Internet is 10 years. How do you arrive at your estimate? When I was searching for information about something introduced 10 years ago, about half of the links were dead

Re: cygwin x11

2006-02-21 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Gui Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:49 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: cygwin x11 does any one know how to install a application with graphic interface by cygwin (local) and

Re: cygwin x11

2006-02-21 Thread Bruce Gui
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Re: cygwin x11

2006-02-21 Thread David Boyes
Xlib: connection to mylocalIPaddr:0.0 refused by server [snip] xterm Xt error: Can't open display: mylocalIPaddr:0.0xterm . You have to tell the X server to allow connections from the remote system. See man page for xhost. Xhost must be run from the machine running the X server (your desktop

Re: cygwin x11

2006-02-21 Thread Rick Troth
Bruce ... I run CYGWIN all the time, and mostly for X (since the company-provided machine is Windoze). When I do this, I don't necessarily use PuTTY, but I do often use SSH tunneling (which both PuTTY and OpenSSH supposedly provide). If you don't need the tunnel, then don't use it and

Re: cygwin x11

2006-02-21 Thread Bruce Gui
Hi all, I got a another method to do it. start cygwin on windows box: xinit twm xhost + connect to remote linux box by PuTTY( enable X11 Forwarding) export DISPLAY=localip:0.0 xterm That's it. Best Regards, Bruce Gui IBM Global Resource Delivery China pan-IOT Europe

Re: cygwin x11

2006-02-21 Thread Vic Cross
Bruce Gui wrote: yes, the local system is Windows, and I use PuTTY to connect to remote Linux via SSH. X forwarding is enabled. X forwarding may be disabled on the host to which you are connecting... but when I enter xterm , the remote host display: Xlib: connection to mylocalIPaddr:0.0

Re: cygwin x11

2006-02-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 2/22/06, Vic Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If X11Forwarding is working correctly through SSH, you should need to make no changes at all to DISPLAY. This is part of what SSH does for you. You can verify this by: The other part of the magic performed by SSH during X11 Forwarding is that