Re: [iPAQ] DISPLAY from the skiff

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 18:01, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I tried to compile a package which depends on FLTK, and so requires an X
> display during the build process (it launches "fluid -c <somefile>").
> Weird, I know. I just set up an X server accessible from outside but
> couldn't access it from the skiff. Is there a special fw or something
> which prevents it, or is it just me ?

AFAIK, the skiffs do not support outgoing connections.

If you had SSH access to them you would've been able to tunnel your X
requests through the SSH connection, that generally works for me.

Regards,

Erik Smit
Received on Fri Mar 01 19:18:09 2002