exporting DISPLAY

[Mag0007]

Hi, I am a noobie to X.

We have a server running X Virtual Frame Buffer(VFB) running on AIX.

/usr/bin/X11/X -force -vfb -x abx -x dbe -x GLX :0


I have another AIX box (client) running X11 locally. How can I export the server's display to show this on the client?

I am guessing, I login to the server from the X11 AIX client, and do "export DISPLAY=server:0.0" and run "xclock &" ?

 

[bjbacker]

that's what I would do. If you get an error message, try running `xhost +` on the server that you're trying to export the display from. this will remove all security restrictions so you can make sure everything else is setup properly.

 

[Mag0007]

Thanks for the quick response, but I get this error.

$ export DISPLAY=172.21.139.90:0.0
$ xhost +
Xlib: connection to "172.21.139.90:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
1356-200 xhost unable to open display "172.21.139.90:0.0"

 

[Mag0007]

got it working!

thanks!