Ok...I think I have a partial lack of understanding of how the display numbers work. I tried 0.0, and it said the connection was refused, followed by "no protocol specified". I also tried 0.2 on a longshot. BTW, I'm running these commands from an xterm window....if that helps/matters.
--Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Kellers Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:15 PM To: Brian McCann; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Remote X from another BSD Box Are you setting your DISPLAY variable? for example: bash export $DISPLAY=(the IP address of the Open BSD box):0.0 or for the (t)csh >setenv DISPLAY (the IP address of the Open BSD box):0.0 where the :0.0 part is the number of the X display on your OpenBSD box Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Wednesday 19 March 2003 10:06 pm, Brian McCann wrote: > Hi all. I'd imagine this would be fairly simple since I got it to > work from Xmanager for Windows...but I'm having difficulties. I have > 2 boxes, both BSD (one FreeBSD, one OpenBSD). The FreeBSD box has a > full blown install of X with KDE and all kinds of stuff, the OpenBSD > just has a basic X installed with xdm. I'd like to be able to use the > OpenBSD box as a display for the FreeBSD box. I thought I'd just be > able to ssh into the FreeBSD box and run xmms, xcalc, xterm, whatever > I wanted...but no dice. Can someone help me out? > > Thanks, > --Brian > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
