Re: LUG: Putty X11 problems - Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:30:05 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: Putty X11 problems

From : jpgoel@ncsu.[redacted]

Date : Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:30:05 -0500

Are you running an SSH server on your own computer? You need to do that,
so PuTTY can connect to it, and then that will display the graphics.

I'd give xming a whirl: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/

(I think the university also makes XWin32 available?)

Jay

On Wed, February 24, 2010 10:10 am, Daniel Underwood wrote:
> Logging into my machine via SSH using Putty. I have enabled forwarding
> X11 in Putty and in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. I get errors, however, when I
> try to run any graphical applications. For example, gnome-terminal and
> gedit both complain that they're unable to open display.
>
> What could I be missing here?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> --
> Daniel Underwood
> North Carolina State University
> Graduate Student - Operations Research
> email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
> phone: XXX.302.3291
> web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/
>
>

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