[Nottingham] KDE and remote X connections.

[Dan Mackdermott]

Hi Robert,

On 9 Jun 2003, Robert Postill wrote:

> Hi,
> I've recently been trying to get a headless Sun to have oracle. 
> Unfortunately Oracle is only set-up via X these days so I'm trying to
> get the display working on my linux box (10.1.1.52).  I'm using KDE
> mostly and even though I'm setting the DISPLAY variable on the Sun box
> (10.1.1.4) to 10.1.1.52:0.0 I'm getting "Error: Can't open display:
> 10.1.1.52:0.0" messages.  Now if I change to GNOME, no problem.  Only
> KDE exhibits the behaviour so I know it's not the xhosts getting in the
> way.  Has anyone any ideas?
> Robert.
> 

Have you tried launching an xterm on your local machine and running 
'xhost +10.1.1.4'?

Cheers,

Dan

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