Thank you Dale, but when I added " localhost:10.0" to X display location, the problem still exist, just without the phrase "localhost:10.0" in the warning. My X11 forwarding is enabled all the time and all other GUIs work just fine.
And thank you for your clarification on the concept of server and client "in the X11 word". It makes a lot of sense and I just didn't give it a second thought! Best, Chen On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Dale Tronrud <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Both the ssh client and server must be set up with "X11Forwarding > yes". The message sounds like your local computer is not set up to > accept X11 tunneling. (By the way, in the X11 world the remote system > is the "client" and your local system the "server".) > > Dale Tronrud > > On 7/1/2015 3:40 PM, Chen Zhao wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Sorry to bother you, but I am trying to fix a long-standing problem > > that I cannot run Coot and Pymol through Xming/PUTTY by SSH > > connection on a windows client. The error messages are pretty > > similar for both: Coot: PuTTY X11 proxy: unable to connect to > > forwarded X server: Network error: Connection refused > > (coot-real:23113): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > localhost:10.0 Pymol: PuTTY X11 proxy: unable to connect to > > forwarded X server: Network error: Connection refused freeglut > > (pymol): failed to open display 'localhost:10.0' > > > > Does anybody have some ideas? > > > > Thank you so much, Chen > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlWUbgYACgkQU5C0gGfAG10hVgCeLmuE4pHFrapu9biY9nHO/Bpi > 5O8An17UN+hgpr7/6A+mny+XOBfJV/T5 > =iTfz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
