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

[Ian Evans]

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.
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