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Old 08-27-2005, 01:08 AM  
Nathan
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Maybe I am missing something here, but you are trying to run X programs via SSH to localhost?! That makes utterly no sense.

X is a client server system. The Server runs the apps, the Client displays them. If you use it on your desktop, then both are on the same system, but it looks like you installed X on your SERVER and are now trying to somehow start x apps via ssh? Where are you expecting them to appear? If you want them on your desktop, you need a X client on your DESKTOP and need to tell your SERVER which DISPLAY to use meaning your desktop.

Also, running startx on a SERVER makes no real sense to me either.

May you have misunderstood something about X maybe, or were you just unclear in your post and I do not understand?
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