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

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 15:32:36 UTC 2014


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
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