Re: getting xpdf etc. to display (a bit urgent)

["Jay F. Shachter" <jay%m5.chicago.il.us@localhost>]

Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Steve Blinkhorn would write on Mon Oct 2 13:43:13 2023:

> 
> I run a network of NetBSD machines, and until today accessed them by way
> of a VNC server accessed through a Windows 10 VNC viewer on a big screen.
> This afternoon we had a long thunderstorm and two power cuts, and the Windows
> machine won't reboot.
> 
> So I configured an amd64 NetBSD 9.0 machine to run the stock out-of-the-box
> X11R7 server, but I find that applications like xpdf and gv just sit there,
> nothing of the document appears on screen.  It has to be to do with the X11
> server, because those application on this same machine worked perfectly when
> accessed through the Windows machine over VNC.  I'm under some pressure,
> because i have tax returns to file, and I can't read the PDF invoices that
> need entering into accounting software.
> 
> I imagine this is something very obvious I'm missing in X11 configuration -
> suggestions please.
> 
> -- 
> Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>
> 

Are you running X with the "-listen tcp" arguments -- by default, you
don't -- and, if so, do you have firewall rules blocking port 6001,
and, if not, is the DISPLAY variable properly set (and exported) on
the client machine?


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