[vishnu]

So I know I've asked this question before, but I've never received an answer that worked. Years ago it used to spout an error message that said "xsgi extension missing on host," but now it just says "Can't open display."

So here's the story: I do "xhost +" on my Linux computer, it responds "access control disabled, clients can connect from any host"

Okay, so far so good. So I telnet into my Octane, and do either one of two things (the shell on my Octane is BASH, as set in my ~/.profile):

export DISPLAY=starhunter:0.0 - (starhunter is my Linux computer's name, and yes it is in my Octane's host file). Or this:

export DISPLAY=10.4.0.103:0.0 - (that's my Linux computer's IP address on my LAN).

So let's test that last one:

echo $DISPLAY
10.4.0.103:0.0

So that's exactly what you'd expect.

So if anyone ALREADY knows how to do this, please respond. If you DON'T know how to do this, please ignore, I've already done enough Internet research (to no result) that no one else should bother to repeat. I'm sure I missed something obvious, just call me unobservant. 😆