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On Sun, 16 May 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> > My (glibc) xhost is an 8K file in xbin.tgz of Slackware 7.1.
> I found it for BL3 also in slack 4 xbin.tgz. Thank You.

> > Did you see a grey screen with an X when you typed startx?
> Yes, i did. But I got a lot of errors starting startxt, because
> it started Xvesa, and X is configured for my normal Xsvga.
I presume xhost worked for you instead.

Can you use XF86_SVGA instead of Xvesa in startx?
exec XF86_SVGA -ac

For Xvesa in BL2 I think I just typed
Xvesa -screen 800x600x16 -ac (no exec - is that needed?).

> > You need the IP number of your local computer, not at freeshell.
> > Whatever DHCP (your router) assigned, or what you assigned manually.
> Sorry, but that is not really correct.
> When you start xterm on SDF it tries to connect to your computer.
> Local IPs are not transfered over the internet.
> So you have to give DISPLAY the IP of your router.
> But the poor router does not know what to do with it. So it swallows it.
That explains why nothing appeared.

> You have to tell the router what to do with it. This is a bit different
> on the routers. Its called portforwarding. You have to open the inport
> 6000 (for display 0), outport also 6000 and destination your local IP
> (with ifconfig).

You export the display to your router's internet IP (WAN not LAN IP)
and tell your router where to send display?  How exactly do you do this?

> You can find out your internet IP in your router or using
> http://bronto.freeshell.org/myip.cgi.
> I get a new internetadress daily. So i did mslookup [myip] and got my
> hostname by the provider. I'm on the way to set up my DIPLAY now
> automticly by logging in SDF.
> Textaplications to SDF are much faster then telnet. I can use mc and
> mcedit. That is a big step further!

I don't understand.  Are you using MC in X?  I can use it without X via 
ssh (dbclient).  It takes a few seconds to fill the screen, over dialup.

> I did not find Keesans directory. So I downloaded LINKS-GUI myself.
> It works realy very slow. After that I found a big file in my dir,
> called links-guy.core. What is that?

On your local computer?

http://keesan.freeshell.org/tmp/bin/ also has dillo, which displayed
one word instead of one character at a time.  How does one install 
browsers which consist of more than just the executable to just a user 
directory?  (Or /tmp).

> Yesterday I got fishtank running somehow and could not stop it :)
> Thank you for all your god ideas!

Please continue helping the rest of us to accomplish what you did.
Can you get x-terminal working with BL at cjb.net?
They have all the linux/BSD graphical browsers as packages.
installhome *

Even dialup X-terminal did not work for me there.

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