From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HqAsE-0006JU-2G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:36:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4LGZNUM031038; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:35:23 GMT Received: from mail34.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail34.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.133.218]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4LGUlqv025859 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:30:53 GMT Received: from [192.168.14.1] (d58-105-11-152.dsl.vic.optusnet.com.au [58.105.11.152]) (authenticated sender agl01) by mail34.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4LGUf9O019068 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 02:30:42 +1000 Message-ID: <4651C936.4030307@wht.com.au> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 00:30:46 +0800 From: Andrew Lowe Organization: Wombat High Tech User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] X11 from another machine Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d0720052-36b8-40ca-8819-4eb710c558fb X-Archives-Hash: b37172a4950838c09b1a157017086836 Hi all, I'm in the process of setting up a linux box as my desktop machine. I've got X up and running, am about to do the kde install, but have a question regarding "remote" X windows. I have the situation where I have to connect to a remote, it's still in my office but X will be running across the network, Sun server so that I can run a CAD system. In the past I've done this from Windows using telnet and an X emulator, exporting the DISPLAY variable etc, but now I want to be able to do this from the linux box. I've tried what I've done under Windows in the past but the Sun machine can't find my X server, even though I'm in a graphical X window when I type the commands to initiate the remote X session. My question is, is there anything "special" that I have to do so that the linux X server is listening to "the outside world" so that the Sun box can create the connection and get X displaying on my linux box? It wouldn't surprise me if I've got something wrong, it's midnight and I've already had way too much chocolate, but I thought I would post this question before I go to bed in the hope that someone might have an insight. Any thoughts on this greatly appreciated, Andrew Lowe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list