Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
Giridharan Iyengar
giyengar@us.ibm.com
Sun Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2001
Hi,
I am able to start the x server successfully on
my win2k laptop but I am unable to get xterms
or twm connect to the display. I tried reducing the
resolution and bit depth and still no luck.
I checked that I have TCP/IP connectivity and even
tried setting the DISPLAY to my ip address
instead of 127.0.0.1.
I can ping any of these addresses but the xterm
comes back with a message that it is unable to connect
to display. Noticed that a couple of people reported
similar problem but could find no resolution for it in
the FAQs.
Xterm comes back with Xt: Unable to connect to display
127.0.0.1:0.
Same thing with twm.
After mucking around for some time, I tried the following.
I connected to a remote machine and launched twm
and an xterm in the remote machine setting the DISPLAY as
my local win2k laptop's ip address:0. This seemed to work
just fine and I could connect to the Xfree server on my
laptop.
I also ran Exceed on my local machine and used the xterm
that came with XFree to connect to the Exceed server.
Again,
the xterm comes back with a message that it is unable to
connect
to display as before.
Any pointers?
Thanks,
-giri
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