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

[Raymond Wagner]

On Jan 28, 2014, at 9:32, 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

Right.  In this context, the "server" is the X-server, and mythtv-setup is the client.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20140128/7ab8a095/attachment.html>