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01-31-2006, 06:26 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Sonora, CA
Distribution: Slackware / SuSE
Posts: 12
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Question / Xserver
K. imsure its something stupid........ BUT when i use startx i get this (screen shot):
http://www.austinsmusz.com/stuff/Clipboard01.jpg |
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01-31-2006, 06:51 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Aguascalientes, AGS. Mexico.
Distribution: Slackware 13.0 kernel 2.6.29.6
Posts: 816
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Hello there,
I shall only say that, you can't expect to startx on putty
get a X11 client for Windows
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01-31-2006, 09:47 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2005
Posts: 1,755
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or more correctly, an X server
Putty can forward X, but only if you are running an X server. Use Cygwin/X (the X server in Cygwin) or Xming (the same X server but without Cygwin). |
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01-31-2006, 10:57 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Chicago
Distribution: Gentoo, Slackware, and FreeBSD
Posts: 38
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I will also add, you should never ever be running X as root, X forwarding or not.
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02-01-2006, 09:31 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Aguascalientes, AGS. Mexico.
Distribution: Slackware 13.0 kernel 2.6.29.6
Posts: 816
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by spooon
or more correctly, an X server
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 oops yeap ... my mistake 
I always get confused on X11's way to put the client and the server  |
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02-01-2006, 11:00 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Sonora, CA
Distribution: Slackware / SuSE
Posts: 12
Original Poster
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Thnx :)
K, thanks guys. I will try the suggestions!  |
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