x11drv: cant open display

Gaul, Ken Ken.Gaul at beCogent.com
Fri Mar 5 09:10:50 CST 2004


If you don't need a display on that box then change the wine config file
in the wine section and change the graphics driver e.g
"GraphicsDriver" = "ttydrv"


Ken.

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 12:06, Lim Wee Cheong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> actually I am trying to run a socket program on the linux machine
> which I was trying to SSH to. I dun need the SSH display to show me
> the display. I only require it to run and listen on a specific port. I
> have tried logging on as a user and as root. Neither works. Any ideas?
> Thanks for helping
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: "Frank Clements" 
> >To: "Lim Wee Cheong" , 
> >Subject: RE: x11drv: cant open display 
> >Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 16:42:26 -0500 
> > 
> >actually... let me elaborate on that. 
> > 
> >anyone can correct me if I'm wrong. 
> > 
> > 
> >if you aren't blocking anything on your local machine ( and the
> remote 
> >allow all external through unfiltered ) you can simply do export 
> >DISPLAY=:0 
> > 
> >if you and/or the other machine are behind a firewall you should be
> able 
> >to send your display over the ssh tunnel by: 
> > 
> >in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config make sure you have 
> > 
> >X11Forwarding yes 
> >X11DisplayOffset 0  ( i think that will work ) 
> > 
> >am i wrong?  I haven't tried this... or have I ever sent my display
> over 
> >ssh, just read about it.... 
> > 
> >-fc 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Lim Wee Cheong [mailto:mac_hjc at hotmail.com] 
> > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:29 AM 
> > To: wine-users at winehq.org 
> > Subject: x11drv: cant open display 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all, 
> > 
> > I am using SSH to login to my redhat box to run a windows app on 
> >wine. Whenever I attempt to run this as a user I get the x11drv: cant
> >open display error. Spent a few days trying to sort this out. Pls
> help. 
> >Thank you. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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