[clue] 'Export display' question

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Sat Mar 1 18:07:17 MST 2014


foo7775 at comcast.net wrote:
>
> Trying to run a Sharp printer install routine on a "cmdline-only" RHEL 6.4 system (no X w indows
> installed) . My connection is via SSH over PuTTY from my Win7 workstation (through a VPN) . When
> I run ./setup, the routine returns 'Can't open display'. I've enabled X11 forwarding within
> PuTTY, and entered "<wkstn IP addr>:0.0" in the 'X display location' blank. Also tried it with
> "<wkstn IP addr>:0", same result.

A couple of thoughts.

First, your display is almost certainly not :0.0.  And if the forwarding is working SSH will set 
$DISPLAY for you.

On the server you'll need enough X client stuff for the program to run.  If it's statically linked 
that might be very little, or you might need a lot of the X libs (of appropriate versions).

On your workstation you need enough X server stuff for the client to display.  I guess maybe Xming 
does that.  I think I used Cygwin a long time ago but it did a full desktop, not seamless windows.

You should probably ask RH to support your printer.  You paid them for it and if you have to figure 
everything out by yourself you'd be running CentOS.

Dave


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