[Macpartners] Setting up X windows using X11 on a G5

[Tim Boyden]

Dan try this, I found it at MacOSXhints.com:

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Fix Apple's X11 to allow remote use of Mac X11 apps
 Mon, Sep 15 '03 at 10:31AM . from: Anonymous     
 
 
  I was trying to get X11 forwarding to work on Mac OS X 10.2.6 / Apple X11.
This lets you run any X11 app on your Mac from any other unix system. While
I could use remote X11 apps from my Mac, I couldn't use apps on my Mac from
my linux box at work. Then I found a writeup on the macwrite.com web site
that explains how to fix this: 

Ten More Mac OS X Loose Ends Part Two - X11 Forwarding
http://www.macwrite.com/criticalmass/ten-more-mac-os-x-loose-ends-part-2.php
#X11

After going through this fix (the instructions are easy to follow), just
make sure you have X11.app running on your mac. Then, from any remote
OSX/unix/linux box, just type: 
ssh yourname at yourhost.com

and you will be able to run any X11 program remotely. As a side benefit, you
can launch X11 apps from the OS X terminal. Before applying this fix, you
could only launch X11 apps from an xterm session.

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Shouldn't you be simulating the Big Bang on that G5 though! ;-)


Timothy Boyden
Systems Administrator
MIT Department of Facilities
IT Support & Training Group




-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Hastings [mailto:hastings at MIT.EDU] 
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 8:36 PM
To: macpartners at mit.edu
Subject: [Macpartners] Setting up X windows using X11 on a G5


Hello,
I recently bought a G5 and want to log in to it remotely from my G4 and run
X window applications from the G5 to the G4. I can make my G4 log in to
x.dialup.mit.edu with no trouble using ssh and run X window applications
from Athena. When I do the same to my G5 it says it cannot open the 
display (with ssh in verbose mode) which tells me that I am not 
setting something right
on the G5. Can anyone give me any advice?
Thanks

-- 

Daniel Hastings
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
Co-Director, Engineering Systems Division E40-257, MIT 77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge MA 02139
ph: 617-253-0906
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