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I am connecting from Windows with Putty and XLaunch to a Debian machine version 7.6, I have tried it on other machines and it worked, the problem is the Debian machine itself, not the configuration. I have already tried this:

DISPLAY=:0.0
xhost localhost

The last command tells me that it is unable to open a display.

NOTE: I'm on a Windows system attempting to use XLaunch to remote display an X application from the Debian system, to Windows.

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    Open a shell on the Debian machine and issue the command `echo $DISPLAY` and report its output. – lord.garbage Oct 22 '14 at 12:04
  • This is the result :0.0DISPLAY=:0.0 – aDoN Oct 22 '14 at 12:05
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    First of all, where do you issue `xhost localhost` on the server or on you local machine. If the former try the latter. And if the latter: (Although you should not do this in terms of a long term soltion. And here only done for debugging purposes.) What happens, when you enter `xhost +` on your local machine thereby granting access to any user. – lord.garbage Oct 22 '14 at 12:11
  • The problem is the machine I connect remotetly – aDoN Oct 22 '14 at 12:13
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    What if you try `set DISPLAY=put-in-you-ip-here` and then `export DISPLAY` on the remote machine? That helped me with Putty. – lord.garbage Oct 22 '14 at 12:17
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    Do you want to display X11 applications on the Windows machine, or on the remote Debian machine? If you want to display things on Windows, do not set `DISPLAY`: if it isn't set, then forwarding is not in place and setting `DISPLAY` cannot help; the problem is probably in the PuTTY configuration. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Oct 22 '14 at 16:45

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Here is my configuration :

Xlauch

  • in first screen, there is a field called Display number, do not use 0, try 1756 (for instance), next
  • next (Start no client)
  • check 'no access control', next
  • done

Putty

  • in Connection -> SSH -> X11 :
    • enable X11 forwarding
    • X Display Location : put localhost:1756.0
  • connect, do not set DISPLAY in any .bashrc et all.

when connected launch any X client.

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  • Do you know what does the ".0" in localhost:1756.0" mean? – alpha_989 Nov 07 '17 at 15:43
  • Also how does the "no access control" help in setting up a reliable and repeatable connection with Xming? – alpha_989 Nov 07 '17 at 15:45
  • I always use 0, I guess .1, .2 are in case you have multiple screen. I use "no access control" because I was unable to set a proper access control. – Archemar Nov 07 '17 at 15:46
  • Thanks for the explanation.. when you mean multiple screens do you mean multiple screens on the server to which you are trying to login? – alpha_989 Nov 07 '17 at 17:22
  • For me, it turns out that using localhost:1757.0 (in putty) and 1756 (as Display Number in Xlaunch) works the same as using 0.0 (in putty) and 0 (as Display Number in Xlaunch). In either case when I login to the remote server "echo $DISPLAY" reads "localhost:10.0". – alpha_989 Nov 07 '17 at 17:24
  • When I have multiple windows open, the DISPLAY value increments by 1, so $DISPLAY increases from "localhost:10" to "localhost:11", similar to the answer here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10121/open-a-window-on-a-remote-x-display-why-cannot-open-display – alpha_989 Nov 07 '17 at 17:25