Chaging location of X server

[DtY]

I got a macbook today (), and want to run Fedora in a VM. I have VMWare and Fedora up and working, but I don't want to fork over the resources to run an X-Server (especially memory) when OSX already has an X Server running (I did not know it did, but that saves a lot of trouble)
So, what I want to do, is make Fedora boot without X (I know how to do this) and then make any X programs I start use the Mac's X server.
From what I know already, this would involve two steps: Allowing the Mac's X server to accept external connections (since the VM is technically an external computer), and then telling Fedora that that's where the X server is.

Thanks

btw, I don't want a desktop environment, just to be able to run X programs

[edit] Oh, and question, does anyone know, or know a website that explains how to do those two steps?

[rdrake]

No, but I find it amusing that you used the maximum amount of smilies possible in a post.

[DtY]

rdrake @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:24 pm wrote:

No, but I find it amusing that you used the maximum amount of smilies possible in a post.

I had a few more, but it wouldn't let me post

[andrew.]

There must be a way because I think that you can do something like this with a jailbroken iPhone/iPod touch. I see in the preferences of X11 there is something about connections in the security tab. I don't know if it helps though.

[[Gandalf]]

No idea, however:

...and then the forums exploded. Good times.

[DtY]

andrew. @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:01 pm wrote:

There must be a way because I think that you can do something like this with a jailbroken iPhone/iPod touch. I see in the preferences of X11 there is something about connections in the security tab. I don't know if it helps though.

Okay, I enabled allow network connections. Now does anyone know how to make my Linux "computer" send X somewhere else?
I heard somewhere that it's an environment variable, but I checked env and found nothing useful (ie. nothing set to localhost or 127.0.0.1), so if it is, it's not set right now.

[andrew.]

Maybe this or this. Don't know if that's what you're looking for.

[DtY]

andrew. @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:35 pm wrote:

Maybe this or this. Don't know if that's what you're looking for.

Nope I can run gui applications the way I want if I SSH into the VM, but I want to start them from within the VM.

[edit] That second one looks relevant actually, I should read past the title
I'll let you know if it works

[DtY]

Okay, still not working, I get the error that it cannot open the display.
I'm not sure what's wrong, I added my VM's IP address to xhost, and then even tried with my name.
Also, there are two networks in mac os: vmnet8 and vmnet1, what's the different between these two? I can ping both, but cannot cannot to X on either

[edit] I can connect to both on port 6000 (X port) with telnet
[edit 2] Just got it working, you have to put the display number at the end of the DISPLAY variable, so it would be
export DISPLAY=xx.xx.xx.xx:0.0

If I want this in my environment at every boot, what file do I need to put that in? .bashrc?

[rdrake]

DtY @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:30 pm wrote:

If I want this in my environment at every boot, what file do I need to put that in? .bashrc?

code:

~/.bash_profile

[DtY]

Thanks

[andrew.]

So did you get it working? If so, can I see a screenshot? It sounds cool.

[DtY]

andrew. @ Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:36 am wrote:

So did you get it working? If so, can I see a screenshot? It sounds cool.

Yup, it's working exactly how I want
Except one of my C programs is seg faulting when I run it, even if I ssh into my desktop and run it off there (displaying locally), but that's probably my fault. (It runs fine if I run it on my desktop)



(For anyone who doesn't get what's going on, gedit is running in the virtual machine running Linux, but displaying on the Mac)

[edit] Oops, I left the arch folder on the desktop. Inevitably, someone's going to ask why I didn't use that.
In short, I gave up. I installed it, then "took the CD out and rebooted", and got an error saying that the "drive" wasn't bootable (VMWare error, not an arch error). The same thing happened when I tried installing Fedora, so I gave up and used a pre made VM.
I'll try it again later.

[andrew.]

Very nice. But may I ask why you didn't just install GNOME or KDE on your Mac? You can have them running with the Mac desktop environment. This guy posted a screenshot on his site.

[DtY]

I wanted to have Linux, probably all the programs I use have been ported to OS X, so I guess mostly because I can.