XWindows Question Quick one 398

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Itisconfusing, but the component that displays windows on your PC is an X server. The applications that want to display windows (like xterm or xclock) are X clients, and the component that serves keystrokes, mouse movements and window graphic actions to the clients is called an X server.

my MSWindows X server. I used to use Cygwin, but that tool is a bit heavyweight for my needs.

Did you remember to a) set the authorities on your X server to permit the client to connect (xhost, xauth, or the like)? b) export the DISPLAY environment variable on the remote system, pointing it at the X server on your local system?

If you use X Forwarding in your SSH connection, you won't have to worry about either the x auth or the DISPLAY envvar; both will be set properly for you.

However, if you telnet into your remote system, you'll need set up xauth and DISPLAY. In that case, try this line export DISPLAY=`who am i awk '{print $6}' tr -d '()'`:0.0 in your ~-.profile file on the remote AIX system.

HTH - -- Lew Pitcher IT Specialist, Enterprise Data Systems, Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

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