On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Is something in your .profile or .bashrc clearing your DISPLAY variable? > When I log in with putty with the X forwarding box checked I get a > DISPLAY variable set automatically (you can see it with 'env') that > isn't set when I don't check the box. No, "grep -r DISPLAY $HOME" and "... /root" return nothing :-( I'd prefer to get Xming + CentOS working (it worked for me once already, had CentOS in VmWare and could run X-programs via Xming from it) instead of installing NX.... Thnak you all for any hints Alex