[TriLUG] remote X display

[Brent Verner]

[2003-03-05 13:15] Ryan Leathers said:

| How do I now get host A's X desktop displayed back on host B?  
| If I do X -query localhost (which is where DISPLAY is exported for the
| ssh tunnel) I get an error saying unknown host: localhost
| If I do X -query 172.16.128.140 (which is the ip address of host B) I
| get an error saying Server is already active for display 0

This should get you working.

X :1 -query 172.16.128.140 
  ^^ local display to use.

hth.
  brent

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