[CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Jun 15 20:29:24 UTC 2010


On 6/15/2010 2:56 PM, Alexander Farber wrote:
>   grep -rw DISPLAY /etc/
>
> doesn't set anything either...
>
> So, when connecting via SSH/PuTTY,
> then the DISPLAy should be set to localhost:10.0 by SSH, correct?

Yes - that's mostly magic done by sshd when the client requests 
forwarding.  I think the actual number would depend on what ports were 
already in use on the server side.

And I still recommend at least looking at NX/freenx.  It's a painless 
windows installer and a yum install on the centos side.  Even if you get 
xming working you aren't going to like running it over the internet 
much.  Even if you have good bandwidth, the latency makes it slow to 
respond.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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