can't open Xterm

Raghu Vadapalli vze269th at verizon.net
Tue Feb 17 01:49:54 UTC 2004


Thank you Sir, that worked. 
Thanks
Raghu.
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 20:37, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 17.02.2004 schrieb Raghu Vadapalli um 02:26:
> > I did xhost + on my Fedora box and then xterm from Redhat 9 m/c and the
> > RH9 gives me this error message.
> > 
> > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 
> > 
> > What's wrong ? What I am supposed to look for ?
> > Thanks
> > Raghu.
> 
> How do you connect to the RH9 box? I recommend using "ssh -X" which will
> do X forwarding and setting the $DISPLAY correctly.
> 
> Also make sure the X server is not running as "tcp nolisten" which is
> the default setting. You can change that in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf where
> it is commented. Or use the graphical tools from menu: System Settings
> -> Login Screen -> Security -> TCP connections to the X server ...
> (translated from my German menu).
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
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