Hello,
I've found the solution for my problem:
sudo yum install xorg-x11-xinit
Once I've done that, then started Xming with -ac and PuTTY with X11 Forwarding enabled, then the variable DISPLAY got set to localhost:10 automatically and I could run X-programs
Your advice with NX has worked too, thank you, Les:
sudo yum install freenx sudo cat /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key (paste the key into Windows NX client prompt)
Regards Alex
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
What you are doing should work if putty is really forwarding, but if you intend to do much remote X work, I'd recommend installing the freenx package on the CentOS side and running the windows NX client that you can download from http://www.nomachine.com. The only quirk I've found is that it generates a unique keypair during the install so you need to cat /etc/nxserver/client.id in a putty session, and cut/paste it into the nx client config (click configure, then the 'key' button). It takes care of running over the ssh port for you and gives much better performance than normal remote X access.