[FreeNX-kNX] Unable to open Display

[Daniel Spannbauer]

Freek de Kruijf schrieb:
> Op vrijdag 12 juni 2009 09:00:07 schreef Daniel Spannbauer:
>> Florian Schmidt schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> NX set's locally the Display to 1000 plus the session number (the first
>>> one is 0) so the display on your NX server is unix:1000 -> the unix is
>>> used for local socket operations only.
>>>
>>> When you connect to an different machine you need a possibility to
>>> connect and forwarding you X11 credentials automatically. Telnet doesn't
>>> support X11 forwarding (at least out of the box).
>>>
>>> So I would suggest that you use ssh -X <hostname> instead to use X11
>>> forwarding.
>>>
>>> If there is any real reason (I can't see any in any case) that you are
>>> forced to use telnet (I am wondering that this is still alive :) ) you
>>> can set your display than on the machine by setenv DISPLAY
>>> <loginserverhostname>:1000 (tcsh) or export
>>> DISPLAY=<loginserverhostname>:1000 (bash) and than do an xhost
>>> +<hostnamewhereItelnetedto> on your NX LoginServer.
>> Ok, now I understand the Problem.
>> But can I tell NX to use a Display that begins with the Hostname, not
>> "unix"?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Florian
> 
> Which hostname? unix is in fact the localhost. If you want to go to another 
> host your NX host is a dispatcher host and you have to look in de 
> documentation for load balancing, because that's what you are doing with the 
> NX host.
> 

Hmmm, I thin "load balancing" is the wrong word for that.
But I've patched nxnode.
Now, I can set a Value in node.conf and the Display is set to 
"hostname:1000" instead of "unix:1000".
This works fine, xauth is also done in the right way so a xhost + is not 
necessary.

Regards

Daniel



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