Posted by: rob
Using Mac OS X as an X-Windows display - 07/03/2006 17:12
Does anyone know how to display X apps (running on a Linux box) on a Mac? There seems to be an X11 application which I ran, and I did an xhost + unixhost but the app can't connect. It connects fine to a PC running Cygwin.
There's probably some Mac magic to do!
Ta
Rob
Posted by: DWallach
Re: Using Mac OS X as an X-Windows display - 07/03/2006 17:21
Have you checked your firewall settings?
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Using Mac OS X as an X-Windows display - 07/03/2006 19:34
I don't know if this is feasible in your situation, but have you tried using ssh to connect to the remote host? SSH X tunnels work quite well and don't require any xhost nonsense. You'll probably have to give the ssh command a "-X" (or maybe "-Y") option, and it has to be enabled in the ssh server's config file, but it works a charm barring all that. (Of course, I haven't done it under MacOS. I'll try when I get home.)
Posted by: drakino
Re: Using Mac OS X as an X-Windows display - 08/03/2006 00:46
My only experience with X11 on the Mac worked fine. Opened the X11 app, ran the xhost command, and then set the display variable on the server. After that, windows started appearing like I expected. The firewall would be the only thing I can think of as well.
Posted by: rob
Re: Using Mac OS X as an X-Windows display - 08/03/2006 11:37
DISPLAY was set correctly, and X11 is installed. The firewall sounds like a good candidate - will take a look at it today.
Thanks
Rob