On 10/20/2013 6:44 AM, Larry Martell wrote: > I am running putty from Windows. I do have X11 forwarding enabled. But I > still get 'could not open display' I though perhaps I needed to install > Xming, but I don't have admin rights on the Windows box, so I couldn't do > that. yes, you need an X server, like xming, to use X11. I believe you can run xming without installing it, get the zip version, or the 'portable' version. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast