Rupert, Hey, we like users that solve their own problems, we would like you to stick around :)
Harold > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rupert Brooks > Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 4:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: x apps cant start from bash > > > Solved my own problem; sorry to bother y'all > > FTR, the solution is that > a) if the DISPLAY variable in bash is set without export, then when SSH > starts up its not noticed, and then SSH does not notice where to send > the X11 stream > > b) you have to set and export the display variable, it is neither set > automatically, nor does ssh have a default. > > I'm a tcsh user, so didnt realize that necessity under bash. > > This seems to be covered in the SSH notes message, sorry I didn't see that > before. > > Rupert B > > > On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Rupert Brooks wrote: > > > Hi > > - having a strange problem here. Just installed a fresh install of > > Cygwin / Xfree. startxwin.bat works, and an xterm appears. From that > > xterm I can start other xapps and they work. > > > > BUT, from another cygwin bash shell, started independently, I get the > > following error > > xterm XT error: Can't open display: > > > > I have tried with numerous variations in the DISPLAY variable > > localhost:0 > > localhost:0.0 > > 127.0.0.1:0 > > 127.0.0.1:0.0 > > 192.168.1.150:0.0 > > > > etc > > > > I have done a tracert on all those addresses, and my routing seems ok, > > that is packets for the localhost don't get routed out into the network > > where the router might frig with them. > > > > Xwin.log shows no signs of having refused the connections. So I am > > guessing that the request never made it to the Xserver. > > > > The problem I am ultimately trying to solve, is to get a remote > connection > > tunnelled over openSSH or putty. I have that setup on another machine, > > and working well. there are two differences with this machine - this OS > > is WinME not Win2K, and this one lives behind a LinkSys router. > > > > Anyway, I think I should get the local set up working right first before > > trying to diagnose the SSH part. I don't see, though, why the router > > should stop packets from the localhost. There is no firewall > software on > > this machine. > > > > Has anyone seen this before? Can anyone suggest where else to look? > > > > Thanks much > > Rupert B. > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Rupert Brooks > McGill Centre for Intelligent Machines (www.cim.mcgill.ca) > PhD. Student > http://www.cyberus.ca/~rbrooks > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 27978014 CELL: 6137997873 > SMS: send short mail to <CELL#>@pcs.rogers.com > > >