I am having difficulty exporting windows between computers. I would like to find a "how-to" like documentation so I can figure out what is blocking windows from one computer from displaying on the other. The main difficulty I am having in solving my problem is that I can not find a Google-able error messages. When I try to export the display of the program xv all I get is the message "xv: Can't open display".
I think I could ask a more intelligent questions of I had some sort of guide to reference, rather that just copying Unix rituals that use to work for me in the past. Because of this, I am going to give a brief account of the one way I an able to get windows display. For a background, I have two computers (harrier, merganser) linked by ethernet, only one computer is intermittently linked to the Internet via wifi. My setup is old school in the fact that when no users are logged the computer displays a text console. I usually logon as a normal user in the text console then execute "startx" to get my graphics desktop. The one-way I can export a window, I logon as root on harrier's text console, then I use "X :1" to start an a graphic console. I then "export DISPLAY=:1; xterm" Then inside the new xterm, I "xhost +", after that, I "ssh normaluser@merganser" once logged-on I "export DISPLAY=harrier:1.0" I can then issues the command "xv" which puts of a window on harrier. But when I try a similar approach from a normal user's graphic screen (started from startx) all I get is "xv: Can't open display". I know "xhost +" is a security nightmare. So instead, I would like to put something in a config file so that when I am logged on one computer as a normal user I can export windows between the two and possibly a third computer. Does anyone here know where I can find some docs that will get me started? I also want to know if can find a more verbose error message, no information is collected on either /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/messages. LocalWords: wifi ethernet logon Xauthority startx xhost config ____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more! _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
