[CentOS] xhost: unable to open display

Tue May 20 14:46:52 UTC 2014
Charles Whitby <charles.whitby at gmail.com>

You running doing the xhost + on the Win8 box and the export DISPLAY on the
Linux side, right?


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Dan Hyatt <dhyatt at dsgmail.wustl.edu>wrote:

> When I put
> export DISPLAY="IP address:0.0"    ip address being my windows8 desktop
>
> then
> xhost +
>
> I get
> xhost: unable to open display "IP:0.0"
>
> when I try
> export DISPLAY=":0.0"
> I get the same thing.
>
> I have centos6.4 running on a late model Dell Blade
> Windows8 Alienware laptop
>
> I checked the xwin firewall setting and it is set to public network
> access (but strangely private network is grayed out)
> any ideas
>
> --
>
> Dan Hyatt
>
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