Hi, I just set up slackware 10 on my computer. Actually i installed it via
vmware. I gave the virtual machine its own ip address, and now both my pc
(windows) and the virtual machine (slackware) can talk to each other. I am
using a telnet application (securecrt) to ssh to my virtual machine from my
pc (which has the vm installed). I installed an x server on my pc and have
enabled x-forwarding on the slackware sshd service. So now when i type in
"xterm &" in sercurecrt, an xterm window pops up in Windows XP... however...
when i type in "netscape &" in securecrt i get the error:

root@slackbox:~# xterm &
[2] 199
root@slackbox:~# netscape &
[1] 191
root@slackbox:~# Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:10.0 broken
(explicit kill or server shutdown).
[1]- Exit 1 netscape

i.e. an xterm is forwarded to my PC interface , but a netscape session isnt.
This seems a little odd.

Can anyone tell me what is going on here and how i can fix it?

Thanks for any help!

cheers
Joe

Ok it seems to be working now. I'm not sure why i got that original message
"# Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or
server shutdown)" I did eventually get an x11 dialog box on windows
appearing that said netscape has finished downloading/installing and i can
register (which i didnt) etc etc. Well I can now browse with netscape which
is xforwarded via a ssh session to slackware which is running on a vm on the
same computer. I love this semi-convoluted setup!

It would still be great to know what happened here:

> root@slackbox:~# Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:10.0 broken
> (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> [1]- Exit 1 netscape

Maybe it was because netscape hadnt finished downloading/installing

Thanks!
Cheers
Joe


"Joe" <joe@blah.com> wrote in message news:41a0e8cc@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
> Hi, I just set up slackware 10 on my computer. Actually i installed it via
> vmware. I gave the virtual machine its own ip address, and now both my pc
> (windows) and the virtual machine (slackware) can talk to each other. I am
> using a telnet application (securecrt) to ssh to my virtual machine from
> my pc (which has the vm installed). I installed an x server on my pc and
> have enabled x-forwarding on the slackware sshd service. So now when i
> type in "xterm &" in sercurecrt, an xterm window pops up in Windows XP...
> however... when i type in "netscape &" in securecrt i get the error:
>
> root@slackbox:~# xterm &
> [2] 199
> root@slackbox:~# netscape &
> [1] 191
> root@slackbox:~# Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:10.0 broken
> (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> [1]- Exit 1 netscape
>
> i.e. an xterm is forwarded to my PC interface , but a netscape session
> isnt. This seems a little odd.
>
> Can anyone tell me what is going on here and how i can fix it?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> cheers
> Joe
>