On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:52:21 +1100 "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 30/01/07, Zhasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On the machine that you're trying to connect to, try running (as > > root) netstat -ntlp for me. > > > > I think you'll find that X isn't listening on any TCP socket. It > > certainly isn't on my ubuntu desktop. > > > The X server on the remote machine shouldn't have anything to do with > this. You can run X clients on a CPU which doesn't have a server as > long as they have a valiud $DISPLAY to connect to (as many of us can > testify - e.g. installing Oracle through their Java-based installer > on some remote server which doesn't even have a monitor). And that does seem to be the problem - the Xubuntu machine does not set the DISPLAY variable when I log in with SSH. It is set on the other Ubuntu machines that I try (well, both of them). These other Ubuntus would be stock standard installs. > > --Amos > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
