I have been at this for the past two days and still no luck.
$ firefox
Error: no display specified
$ firefox &
[1] 25977
Error:no display specified
^C ^C
[1]+ Exit 1
I am on a Windows7 machine and I'm trying to get Firefox to open on the CentOS machine, but be displayed on my current screen (Windows 7). When typing firefox
in terminal, I am getting the following error:
Error: cannot open display: localhost:0.0
To setup the display I used the command
$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
Some site suggested using the following, but it didn't work either:
$ export DISPLAY=:0.0
Do I really need Xming?
Does anyone know of reliable resources so I can get a better knowledge concerning running applications (e.g. router traffic graphers, Apache, a simple index.html page) off of a virtual machine to be viewed on my desktop via PuTTY?
I really do not want to download Xming or an X server. Is this necessary?
I understand when I am run the command firefox
or firefox &
the server looks for a GUI however it is not "pointed" at my desktop.
I have used the command export
.