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linuxx11puttyxming
Programmer
Programmer

Reputation: 8727

Unable to get X display settings

I have downloaded and installed Xming on my Windows 7 laptop. I am using a PUTTY session to connect to my linux box and start a X Windows application but the $DISPLAY variable is itself not getting setup properly:

I see the XMING icon on my system tray

X0.hosts file:

localhost
10.24.0.144

Putty->X11->Enable X11 Forwarding [X Display Location - :0.0]

But:

@10.24.0.144's password:
Last login: Sun Sep 20 11:57:37 2015 from 10.21.200.197
# echo $DISPLAY

#

As such I am not able to successfully start the X Windows app from Putty?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8534

Answers (2)

Barett
Barett

Reputation: 5948

Did you check this box in PuTTY? The box below can help tweak your display location, if it needs to be customized.

PuTTY x11 screen shot

Upvotes: 1

Prabhu
Prabhu

Reputation: 3541

On the shell try : export DISPLAY="127.0.0.1:10.0" . Test with echo and then try X window application.

To permanently set it up, update the bashrc file.

Upvotes: 0

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