Re: cannot open display localhost:10.0 - Solved Yet?

PTMixer,

Your error is different than the original poster's. The error message
given by "startxfce4" is the clue. It says, "X server already running
on display localhost:10.0". This means the connection has already
been made and the system is aware of the remote X server. What seems
to be going on here is some scripting in the background that tries to
start up an X server if it doesn't see on running locally.

Dean

On Jul 31, 9:00 am, PTMixer <scoremi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> 'Me too'.
>
> I am likely less knowledgeable than the OP, but I'm getting the same
> error. My setup:
>
> iSSH 4.3.2 on my iPad
> Make a Shell connection over SSH to an Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Server
> installation (VM running in ESXi) that I recently installed Xfce
> desktop packages on (GUI works fine on local console). I get text
> login prompt as expected.
> If I type startxfce4 I get this error: "/usr/bin/startxfce4: X server
> already running on display localhost:10.0" and a bunch of other errors
> also follow.
>
> At first I thought this was because the machine booted to a GUI login
> prompt, so I managed to get Ubuntu to just boot up to a text login
> prompt by changing a setting in Grub2.
>
> If I type xterm at the shell prompt (in iSSH) I get some different
> errors; libxfcegui4-warning ICE I/O Error, then "disconnected from
> session manager".
>
> I chose Xfce because I thought it would run a little better than Gnome
> with limited resources. Can you recommend a method for users (who are
> perhaps new to X forwarding) to experience an X session on the iPad --
> I certainly could have missed a critical setting in Ubuntu to make it
> work. Basically I want to have the full desktop draw on the iPad with
> iSSH as the window server. Is that possible?
>
> Thanks.

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