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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers xWindows error: xhost unable to open display Post 302550635 by shoefiend on Friday 26th of August 2011 02:24:31 PM
Old 08-26-2011
Bug xWindows error: xhost unable to open display

I am trying to direct a AIX display to my XWindows and I am at a dead end now!
So this what I've done so far:

1. In putty settings, I set "Enable X11 forwarding" and also set "X diplay location" to "localhost:0" (without quotes, of course)

2. Via putty, connected to my AIX server
3. On AIX, forwarded display to my Windows box
$ export DISPLAY=<ip address of Windows>:0

Meanwhile, I opened MobaXTerm.exe on my Windows machine
$ ssh username@AIX_host_name

On AIX:
$ xclock
Xlib: connection to "<Windows IP address>:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
Error: Can't open display: <Windows IP Address>:0

On Windows: tried looking for listener
$ ps -ef | grep listen
root 364732 1 0 Aug 21 - 0:00 /usr/bin/cimlistener

Then tried setting the Windows to be a host to AIX box:
$ xhost <IP Address of AIX box>
1356-200 xhost unable to open display ""

What more to do?


---------- Post updated at 02:24 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:07 PM ----------

Er.. looks like the various XWindows clients I was trying out were all clashing with one another.

I was trying both XMing and MobaXTerm. Finally noticed that XMing server was still running in the background even though I thought I'd exited XMing.

The following steps in same order worked:
1. Exited XMIng server

2. Connected to AIX server using MobaXTerm
$ ssh username@ServerName

3. In Putty settings, enable X11 Forwarding and set display to localhost:0
(google for this. I am unable to post links as Im a new forum memeber)

4. Connect to AIX using putty
5. Set display to IP address of Windows machine that is running MobaXTerm:
$ echo $DISPLAY

$export DIPSLAY=<ip address of Windows machine>:0

6. Test with a comamnd like xclock. If everything is right, it should display the clock on the windows machine
$ xclock

Last edited by shoefiend; 08-26-2011 at 03:25 PM.. Reason: Resolved the problem myself
 

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size - print the size of the sections in an object file SYNOPSIS
size [ option ... ] [ object ... ] DESCRIPTION
Size (without the -m option) prints the (decimal) number of bytes required by the __TEXT, __DATA and __OBJC segments. All other segments are totaled and that size is listed in the `others' column. The final two columns is the sum in decimal and hexadecimal. If no file is specified, a.out is used. The options to size(1) are: - Treat the remaining arguments as name of object files not options to size(1). -m Print the sizes of the Mach-O segments and sections as well as the total sizes of the sections in each segment and the total size of the segments in the file. -l When used with the -m option, also print the addresses and offsets of the sections and segments. -x When used with the -m option, print the values in hexadecimal (with leading 0x's) rather than decimal. -arch arch_type Specifies the architecture, arch_type, of the file for size(1) to operate on when the file is a universal file. (See arch(3) for the currently know arch_types.) The arch_type can be "all" to operate on all architectures in the file. The default is to display only the host architecture, if the file contains it; otherwise, all architectures in the file are shown. SEE ALSO
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