Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Transferring display of non-windows machine using Putty and X-Manager

Pre-requisites
1. Download and Install Putty.exe.  Latest putty can be downloaded from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
2. Doiwnload and Install XManager 2.0 or above.  XManager can be downloaded from http://download.cnet.com/Xmanager/3000-7240_4-10038129.html

Steps you need to follow
1. Go to Start->Programs->Xmanager2->Xmanager - Passive
2. Launch Putty and load/provide the IP of the machine you wanted to connect
3. Goto SSH->X11->Enable X11 forwarding
4. Click Open
5. Set Display environment variable by using below command

    export DISPLAY=:0.0
 6. Test if display is transferred by using xclock command

Note: This will work only if host is having SSH.