unable open xterm

Paul Hartman paul.hartman at gmail.com
Tue May 10 09:13:19 PDT 2011


2011/5/10 Usuário do Sistema <maiconlp at ig.com.br>:
> yes! I'm trying open a window xterm from ssh connection.
>
> how I'm doing:
>
> from my windows machine ( with Win 7 ) I conneted to my X Server
> machine by Puty.
>
> there I run the xterm command.

Remember that X server is the machine with the screen where you want
to see it. So in this case, Windows 7 should be your X server. You can
install Cygwin's X server, then launch it on your Windows machine, and
then Putty should be able to run X client programs on the local X
server (Windows 7).



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