Xlib connection refused

René Berber r.berber@computer.org
Tue Jan 16 20:39:00 GMT 2007


thom wrote:

> Thanks for the help. I was setting the display variable myself. I changed

Which is wrong, you shouldn't change it, ssh does the setting.

> it to be :10.0 and it took longer before giving me the error:
> 
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 192.168.205.98:10.0

And no wonder, the IP address should be 127.0.0.1 (or the IP of the server) not
the client address.

Many people gave you the wrong information, in short ssh takes care of setting
DISPLAY when you use -X or -Y or both, no need for anything else.
-- 
René Berber


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