opensuse 10.2 xterm on putty on win xp

[mfparmar]

I tried to run xterm on winxp with putty. But it give error like no DISPLAY set.
win xp machine is connected through network. how to run xterm on putyy terminal.

[Ogion]

Well, what you get with ssh is a shell-session. It ist like you were sitting at that computer and switch to one of the ttys (Ctrl_Alt_F1-6). So you can't start there an xterm, you can't do it in a ssh. But it is actually quite unnecessary, because an xterm can't do more than a terminal...

If you want to start graphical programs, you need forwarding of the Xserver. I think that is possible too, but i don't know about that...

ogion

[gogalthorp]

There are 2 ways to run a gui

1) VNC or the like these transfers pictures of the screen from the server to the local.

2) run an Xserver on the local computer in this case only events are moved between machines, all graphics are local. This is a lot more efficient since you are not transferring large chunks of graphics. There are Xserver programs for Windows.