On 3/3/2013 3:57 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> A very quick way to find out if the X server is able to display a window
> from a client (the client/server terminology is backwards from the usual
> meaning) is to run xclock.  You can start and stop this in less than a
> second
> to see if the clock shows up on your screen.  When you get that working,
> then you can try more complex applications like LinuxCNC/Axis.
> Sometimes you still need to run xhost +<remote machine address>

Xclock, or xeyes, or pretty much anything in the x11-apps package would 
do. I was trying to stick to an app already known to LinuxCNC users. An 
advantage to using glxgears is that it also tests whether the X-server 
supports glx at all (don't know about Mac X-servers but the early 
PC/Windows X-servers did not). In any case,we agree that one can test 
the X communications issues before moving on to LinuxCNC issues.

As for xhost, that is an evil program. It should have been banished long 
ago. The whole point of X-tunneling through ssh is to avoid the gigantic 
security holes punched through systems by hacks like xhost.

Regards,
Kent


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