[OpenIndiana-discuss] X11 Forwarding.. Can't Open Display

[Jonathan Leafty]

You know what, I just remembered something. Again, sorry, I'm not that
experienced with his stuff, OS was my first "*nix" operating system.

Back on OS b119 I enabled XDMCP GDM, but it was broken in one of the later
builds (b128, can't remember) and I honestly never used it again after I
discovered I could just forward the application and got more comfortable
with the command shell :)

Could there be a conflict that carried over in one of the configs?
Honestly, this isn't a huge deal, the only reason I want a GUI is to clean
up time-slider snapshots since I find it easier to make decisions on what I
want to delete.  I can always launch the ESXi console if it came down to it,
I'm just curious why it isn't working.

I think I'll try remembering what I changed and flip it off.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Jonathan Leafty <
jleafty+openindianadiscuss at gmail.com> wrote:

> FYI, I'll try virtualizing OI 148 and test and if it works I'll go to 151a
> and see what happens.
>
> I'll probably just test with Ubuntu since, I agree, Xming has some issues.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Jonathan Leafty <
> jleafty+openindianadiscuss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I tried this from the Ubuntu VM too and from the OI host (which
>> should work right... it's a loopback but still).
>>
>> I can't say I ever X11'd from an Ubuntu VM to OS/OI before, since I
>> primarily use Windows, but I would imagine it would work or have a different
>> error message if the cause was different.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:05 AM, David Brodbeck <brodbd at uw.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Jonathan Leafty <
>>> jleafty+openindianadiscuss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > FYI, I decided to see if maybe Xming was just acting up, enabled
>>> > OpenSSH/X11
>>> > forwarding on my Ubuntu box and I can successfully launch programs
>>> (like
>>> > gedit).
>>> >
>>>
>>> One thing I've noticed about Xming is it does not allocate a TTY or
>>> create a
>>> login shell when it connects.  This has caused problems for me in the
>>> past;
>>> for example if you have a .profile or a system-wide /etc/profile neither
>>> will be run for an Xming connection.
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Brodbeck
>>> System Administrator, Linguistics
>>> University of Washington
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>>
>>
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