topic Re: cannot open display in Operating System - Linux

cannot open display

Tonatiuh — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:01:53 GMT

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

I am not able to open the xclock working diretly in the server. I already did:

$ export DISPLAY=:0.0

And when I do: $ xclock +

I receive the following message:

xhost: unable to open display

Any idea?

Re: cannot open display

Justin_99 — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:15:09 GMT

Does the system/display you are logging in from have an Xserver running?

For example from my work laptop IP 10.x.x.1 I login to redhat system at 10.x.x.2 and run

export DISPLAY=10.x.x.1::0.0
xclock &

If I don't have some sort of X-server running on my work laptop I will not be able to get xclock to display back.

Also you might want to run gdmconfig and under security see if disallow TCP connections to X server is checked. This may cause you some problems.

Re: cannot open display

Ivan Ferreira — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:17:52 GMT

How do you connect to the host, via ssh? If so, then run ssh -X remotehost. If you use ssh -X, you don't need to set the DISPLAY variable.

Re: cannot open display

Tonatiuh — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:28:01 GMT

The problem was solved. The real problem was a parameter of the GUI config:

DisallowTCP

Re: cannot open display

skt_skt — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:18:48 GMT

where is that configuration exactly?