\begin{bart bunting}
> Angus Lees writes:
> > the default is to only allow people logged in on the (text) console
>
> ok this is my problem I was trying to launch X from within an emacs
> shell buffer. It seems to not work from there, but perfectly from the
> console.
>
> I'd like to know how to get it to run from the emacs shell.
change the second line of /etc/X11/Xserver to either:
Anybody - anybody can run it - not very secure
RootOnly - then su or something in an emacs shell
> Having managed to get the xserver running, I've hit my next problem.
> I can't launch X apps from another machine. I've tried
> several things.
>
> xhost +
> which i beleive allows any host to connect to the server. I
> know not very secure, but I am trying to get things working before i
> tighten things up.
>
> I exported the display on the other machine as export DISPLAY=hostname:0
>
> when trying to launch an app i get:
>
> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: erno = 111
weird.. that sounds correct.
there isn't anything that would be blocking connections to port 6000?
just to check:
on your machine:
run X
export DISPLAY=:0
xhost + (can't use -display option, see manpage)
on other machine:
xterm -display firstmachine:0
> I also tried enabling X11 forwarding in the ssh connection. It didn't
> seem to export a display variable and didn't make any difference to
> the error message.
again, that should work.
from a shell that has a working $DISPLAY:
ssh -X othermachine
echo $DISPLAY (will be othermachine:10 or similar)
xterm
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