[mythtv-users] Running mythtv-setup over X as mythtv user

[Tom Lichti]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 8:49, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  [snip]
>>> In windoze running putty, so I'm not seeing the ssh command line
>>> directly. Just have 'Enable X11 forwarding' set.
>>>
>>> Try bypassing it.  On your server, open a terminal and run "xhost
>>> +machine_running_mythtvsetup".  On your client, run "export
>>> DISPLAY=machine_running_server:0.0", and then run mythtv-setup.
>>>
>>>
>> Again may be the lack of caffeine but...
>>
>> a) ssh'd into my myth server ran xhost +the_name_of_my_myth_server and
>> got xhost:  unable to open display "localhost:10.0"
>>
>> b) since I'm using Putty on windoze I don't have a client window to run
>> the export in before the ssh connection is made.
>>
>> Ah...never mind...I see that xhost +machine_running_mythtvsetup is the
> name of the machine that I'm using to connect to the myth box. I'll give
> this a whirl in mobaxterm
>
>
>
Wirth MobaXterm, you don't need to do any of that, it automatically sets up
the right environment variables and port forwards, as I recall. Just open a
terminal, ssh to the box you want, and it should 'just work'

Tom
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