Remote X Apps

[Guido Heumann]

Ben Edwards schrieb:
> Been trying to run a remote aplication.  I.e. I have been using ssh to
> conect to a remote PC on our network and running gkrellm on the remote
> computer with the GUI coming up on my local PC.
> 
> So on the local machene I have tried 
> 
> xhost +192.168.x.x
> 
> or just 
> 
> xhost +
> 
> and on the remote computer doing 
> 
> gkrellm -display 192.168.7.252
> 
> I have tried appending :0 and :0.0 to the end but always get the error
> 
> (gkrellm:24422): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> 
> Any idea what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Ben

Is the remote computer an X-less installation? I think that you also 
need some X library packages on the remote pc. Perhaps try install the 
package "xbase-clients" and its dependencies.

Guido