X windows can t open display

Unless the network environment is entirely controlled, xhost is a very bad idea [1]. Prefer xauth [2] or other mechanisms. My understanding. Really good information. It worked for me. Suppose no browsers are installed on my host and if i want to open browser which is installed on other host, how can i do this.

Try again? Also encountered this error and finally came up with a fix that works for Solaris The listener was not set to listen. Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. X11 Forwarding can't open display client rejected? Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 6 months ago. Active 5 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 16k times. In Putty, I've enabled x11 forwarding, with the 'X display location' set to 0. Not sure if it's significant, but the remote debian is running on a beaglebone black.

Improve this question. Add a comment. Effectively crashing and restarting the X server on every connection attempt. Then you are hitting this problem. The workaround at the moment is to stack all of your monitor either vertically, or horizontally, but not use a mix of both. Xunix link previously described. Skip to content. Xauthority in userx's directory. That being said, that would mean that I would have to have the same users on both the host and the client, and that makes no sense.

That is why I said it was not what you would want to do :lol:. I do remember having seen the "Can't display" issue long time ago. And it had something to do with. Xauthority or some such. It only stays as localhost Note: I found this on several sites, but what I did not get is that the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx changes every time you login as root, so you have to do this all in one pass.