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Re: [Plug] Trouble starting X remotely
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You know what I've always thought somebody should make (and by always, I
mean for the past few months or less)? I think it would be cool to have a
little portable telnet client. Just something simple w/ a fairly small
screen that could do telnet logins. It would be better than a PDA. The
problem is that the connection could be expensive and the density of people
who would have Unix boxes to connect to would only be great enough in
Silicon Valley, but it's a cool idea I think.
From: Joshua Mazess <mazessj@op.net>
Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
Subject: Re: [Plug] Trouble starting X remotely
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:32:41 -0400
Most telnet clients display text only, no graphics. They are too "thin" to
do
anything more complicated than that. Some do ReGIS, but I doubt that can
handle
high resolution and many colors. You need an X server for any system that
you
want to act as an I/O terminal. So, you would need an X server for Win95
and
then you could run your X clients from Linux and direct I/O to the Win95
box by
setting the DISPLAY environment variable (or by specifying on the command
line
of the X client). --Josh
Michael Leone wrote:
> I have a machine running Slackware 3.4 (kernel 2.0.34) as an intranet
web
> server, email server, etc, on my LAN - all the good stuff that Linux
does
> so well and silently. :-)
>
> Anyway - I have X installed on this server. If I startx from the server
> console, everything comes up just as it should. Life is good.
>
> If I telnet in (from a Win95 station), and (following the example in _A
> Practical Guide to Linux_, the only book I have handy here at work) do a
> echo $DISPLAY (to get the contents of the DISPLAY environmental variable
to
> pass to X), I get a blank - not the ":0.0" example in the book.
>
> So, when I startx from the telnet session, X starts over on the server
> console.
> And I have to go over to the server and stop X. Life is bad.
>
> 1. What am I doing wrong? I want the X to show in my telnet window on my
> workstation, not on the server. How can I pass X the info to show up
here
> rather than there?
> 2. Does the server have to already be running X?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> "...and if you have any questions about anything, come on up and ask
> me. Even if I don't know the answer, I'll make something up and you'll
> believe me."-Unknown
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