On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:13 +0100, brouwers roland lx wrote: > To login to my application I use Putty. To display a picture I do a > systemcall, which opens a shell, and launch : 'display mypicture.jpg'. > I get the answer : display: unable to open X server > How can I get around this? Hi Roland, If you are using putty, I presume you are doing this from Windows. To do what you want to do, you will need to run a X-server on your windows PC. I'm a bit rusty on what is available (not being a windows user), but if you google for "windows X server" you should find something. Once you have an X server running on your Windows PC, you then need to make sure that the X server allows connections from the client (the Linux machine). To do this, use the "xhost" command. Eg. xhost linuxpc. To ensure the Linux PC knows how to display it's running application on your Windows PC's X server, either use the "-Y" option to ssh (trusted X11 forwarding) if putty supports this, or set the "DISPLAY" environment variable the the hostname and display of your Windows PC's X server. Eg. export DISPLAY=winders:0 Good luck - this info plus some googling should get you there. You can also look at the man pages on the linux machine for xhost and ssh. Ie. "man ssh", and "man xhost". Cheers, Ben > > > Roland Brouwers > C.A.T. bvba > Antwerp-Belgium > roland@xxxxxx > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
