xhost + doesn't work in KDE 3.1.2

[Nick THOMPSON]

Have you tried 'ssh -X' without then setting DISPLAY on the remote
machine? DISPLAY on the remote should be set for you by ssh to something
odd looking like 'localhost:10.0'. Odd looking, but perfectly correct.
That should work...

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 14:29, Óscar Paz y Paz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>    I've posted a message few days ago to the kde-linux mailing list. It has no 
> a clear answer yet, and I think it is OS-independent too. Let me cut&paste it 
> here, please.
> 
> I've a new laptop running Debian/sarge and I've installed KDE 3.1.2 on it.
> I can't run applications from other computers exporting the DISPLAY 
> environment variable. What I use to do is 'xhost +' in my laptop. Then 'ssh' 
> to the server and 'export DISPLAY=my.laptop:0' on it. When I try to execute 
> any X application server says 'Error: Can't open display: my.laptop:0'.
> I've tried to create a /etc/X0.hosts file and restart X server, following 
> indications from one message in the archive, but it didn't work. The option 
> '-X' in the ssh command doesn't help.
> I'm sure this is KDE dependent, because if I start X with twm or another 
> window manager (via the 'startx' command), I can run the external apps.
> Any suggestion?
> 
> Thx, Óscar.-

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