[Voyage-linux] Re: Xterm again

Edwin Whitelaw (spam-protected)
Fri May 23 22:23:56 HKT 2008


I've found that xbase-clients is indeed needed.  Don't forget to run 
xhosts + locally to allow remote access to your display.

Edwin

Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Bruce Conroy schrieb:
>> Awhile ago I wrote to complain about installing xterm would require 
>> 119 MB. I finally went ahead and installed it. I don't want to run X 
>> on the box itself, what I want is to be able to pop up windows on a 
>> host when I ssh into the box.
>>
>> It still doesn't work. DISPLAY isn't set. The sshd.config has
>> X11Forwarding 
>> yes                                                               
>> X11DisplayOffset 10    
>> and I've tried ssh -X <boxip>
>>
>> nothing works. What am I missing?
>>
>> blc
>
> hi blc
>
> had the same problem with a normal debian install. for me the problem 
> gets solved with installing xbase-clients. Maybe it's not the package 
> itself but one of the depencecies.
>
> - Thomas
>
>
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