On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Mick<michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Mick<michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > roughly is equivalent to 1210x907 pixels. Run 'xdpyinfo -display :0.0' >> > to see the dimensions in rounded numbers. > >> OK, there is possibly a little extra difficulty to get this run, but >> it's likely just ssh stuff or possibly not enabling something in X11. >> >> 1) I first ssh into my dad's Gentoo machine. When I try to run the >> command through the ssh tunnel I get this: >> >> gandalf ~ # xdpyinfo -display :0.0 >> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server >> Xlib: Protocol not supported by server >> >> xdpyinfo: unable to open display ":0.0". >> gandalf ~ # >> >> I then ssh into my mom's Gentoo machine >> >> gandalf ~ # !ssh >> ssh DesertFlower >> Password: >> Last login: Mon Jul 20 19:29:10 PDT 2009 from gandalf on pts/0 >> DesertFlower ~ # xdpyinfo -display :0.0 >> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server >> Xlib: No protocol specified >> >> xdpyinfo: unable to open display ":0.0". >> DesertFlower ~ # >> >> Right now no one is logged into either machine. Both are presumably >> sitting with gdm login screens. > > Hmm, it could be an ssh thing, not sure, probably an xauth thing (have a look > at man xauth). See if setting your IP address allows to access your parents > machine: > > xdpyinfo -display XXX.XXX.XX.XX:0.0 <--where XXX.XXX.XX.XX is your IP address > > of try to set the relevant env variable: setenv DISPLAY XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:0 at > your client machine first. > > Alternatively, ask them to login and then use the same login credentials. > > HTH. > -- > Regards, > Mick > No luck with -display and any IP address I can think of - my address from the net, my local address.
However, there is xdpyinfo -queryExtensions and in that data I see this: m...@gandalf ~ $ xdpyinfo -queryExtensions name of display: localhost:10.0 version number: 11.0 vendor string: The X.Org Foundation vendor release number: 10503000 X.Org version: 1.5.3 maximum request size: 16777212 bytes motion buffer size: 256 <SNIP> screen #0: print screen: no dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters) resolution: 96x96 dots per inch depths (7): 16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32 root window id: 0x80 depth of root window: 16 planes number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1 So on my dad's machine, which I know I set up as 1280x1024, I get the right answer. On my mom's machine however, which I have to m...@desertflower ~ $ xdpyinfo -queryExtensions name of display: localhost:10.0 version number: 11.0 vendor string: The X.Org Foundation vendor release number: 10503000 X.Org version: 1.5.3 maximum request size: 16777212 bytes <SNIP> screen #0: print screen: no dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters) resolution: 96x96 dots per inch depths (7): 16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32 root window id: 0x80 depth of root window: 16 planes and locally on my machine here I get the same info: screen #0: print screen: no dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters) resolution: 96x96 dots per inch depths (7): 16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32 root window id: 0x80 depth of root window: 16 planes so I'm not sure if I'm looking at their machines or just my own? Actually, on my mom's machine it seems it's not really screen #0, it's screen #1 according to the config file, but maybe Xorg actually calls it screen #0 when it's tunning. None the less her default resolution is supposed to be 1024x768 - she has an old small monitor: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "** ATI Radeon (generic) [radeon]" Monitor "My Monitor" DefaultDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection - Mark