Hi Folks, A new question! (All this up-to-date Linux stuff is finding the gaps in my obsolete knowledge ...).
I'm currently trying (rather, wanting to try) running X apps remotely on one of my machines, with Gentoo running off the Live CD on the new laptop. So:
A = new laptop, latest Gentoo off live CD X is Xorg
B = old laptop, Red Hat 9 from 2003. X is X11R6
Normally, when I want remote X apps to display locally, I enter
xhost +
locally, and get "connection is allowed from any host". And it then works.
On A, I again enter "xhost +" and still get "connection is allowed from any host". So far so good, it would seem.
However, A has no telnet client, and rlogin won't work, soI have to use ssh to log in from A to B. This seems to work: I log in, I can tour directories, etc.
B knows where I'm coming from:
B:$ who am i ted ..... (192.168.1.8)
which is fine. But it hasn't attributed an X DISPLAY: echo $DISPLAY returns null. So on B I set
export DISPLAY=192.168.1.8:0.0
which is what I'd normally do. But now, when logged in to B, I issue
xterm
There is a delay, and then the message
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 192.168.1.8:0.0
Does this have something to do with Xorg doing things differently from X11R6? The process I went through above would have worked between any of my X11R6 machines. Or might it have somthing to do with my logging in using ssh rather than telnet (Machine B is set up to be friendly to anything on my LAN 192.168.1.*).
Any suggestions appreciated! Ted.
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