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RE: Info on "Can't open display"
- To: Christopher Landrieu <landrieu at hotmail dot com>
- Subject: RE: Info on "Can't open display"
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:59:21 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Christopher Landrieu wrote:
>
> Therefore, TeraTermSSH is successfully making a working X connection to
> localhost:0.0. TeraTermSSh in this case is technically an X client. The
> only programs that fail to successfully connect are the local X clients from
> XFree86.
>
Do you have access to any other non cygwin xclient? If so please check if
it has the same problem connecting to connect.
> Also, the local X clients cannot even connect properly to a remote X server.
> I believe that the TCP/IP connection is being established successfully but
> that these local X clients are not successfully setting up the X11 protocol
> connection. This is because when I try to run "xterm -display
> remote-x-server:0.0", I can see the connection openned on the remote machine
> ("netstat -np" as root on my linux box). I believe the X server is then
> dropping the connection (like when I do the "telnet localhost 6000" test).
>
AFAIR, Harold has found some pdf files explaining the X11 connection protocol.
Harold - I've not found them on you homepage anymore. Are they still around.
bye
ago
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