Unable to get X display settings

Question

I have downloaded and installed Xming on my Windows 7 laptop. I am using a PUTTY session to connect to my linux box and start a X Windows application but the $DISPLAY variable is itself not getting setup properly:

I see the XMING icon on my system tray

X0.hosts file:

localhost
10.24.0.144

Putty->X11->Enable X11 Forwarding [X Display Location - :0.0]

But:

@10.24.0.144's password:
Last login: Sun Sep 20 11:57:37 2015 from 10.21.200.197
# echo $DISPLAY

#

As such I am not able to successfully start the X Windows app from Putty?

But I am plugged into a local network - so what value of DISPLAY I should set: export DISPLAY=:0.0 — Programmer, Apr 20 '15 at 08:39
@Barett's solution is good. Also: have you configured your Linux box to allow X11 forwarding? See `man sshd_config` for details. — GLRoman, Apr 21 '21 at 01:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 25 '15 at 23:13

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Did you check this box in PuTTY? The box below can help tweak your display location, if it needs to be customized.

PuTTY x11 screen shot

answered Jun 25 '15 at 23:13

Barett

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '15 at 08:57

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On the shell try : export DISPLAY="127.0.0.1:10.0" . Test with echo and then try X window application.

To permanently set it up, update the bashrc file.

answered Apr 20 '15 at 08:57

Prabhu

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Thanks - but when we configure via PUTTY client doesn't it should setup the values - so setting it up in Putty client does not matter – Programmer Apr 20 '15 at 09:18

Unable to get X display settings

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