XDMCP brain fart

Roderick Ford r.ford at cox.net
Mon Nov 13 11:08:49 MST 2006


You need a local X server like Exceed (Hummingbird). 

Dan Lund wrote:
> xnest is a linux app and putty is ssh, so you'd need to do x11
> forwarding through ssh and have an X11 server running locally to
> accept the x11 forwarding.
> So quick answer: no.
> More complicated answer: cygwin with ssh would do what you need.
>
> On 11/13/06, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> You have my curiosity up.  I looked at the man page and I cannot determin
>> how you would use this command.
>>
>> I am using putty to shell into my linux dev box that is right next to me.
>> Can I use  Xnest to use X in my putty shell session?
>>
>> Keith
>>
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>>
>> Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> And if I ever learned how to type, you'd actually believe me!
>> Seriously, the correct answer:
>>
>> Xnest -query machine.name :1
>>
>>
>> Sorry guys for all the lame posts, but in case someone else wants to know, I
>> had to post the correct way to do it.
>>
>> nathan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday 13 November 2006 09:04, Nathan England wrote:
>>     
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I am trying to remote X to another machine, but I want to do it in a
>>> window. I swear I have done this before many times, I only type
>>>
>>> X -query machine.name :0.1
>>>
>>> But it keeps telling me 0 is already in use, 1 works, but on another vt, I
>>> want it displayed in a window, I cannot remember how to do this.
>>> Any help?
>>>
>>> nathan
>>>       
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