I have installed pidgin irc client from ports onto remote FreeBSD 13.1 server. I have Xming installed on my local desktop Windows-10 workstation. I am able to connect to a linux server and open xterm using Xming so I think the Xserver/Putty settings are correct.
I am able to ssh to FreeBSD via Putty ( with X11 forwarding enabled and X display location set to :0.0 ). When I start Pidgin on FreeBSD 13.1 I get the following error. I tried setting the $DISPLAY environemental variable but this does not help. I also have xmonad window manager installed but not xserver on the FreeBSD machine. Do I need to install X11-server on the FreeBSD machine?
I am able to ssh to FreeBSD via Putty ( with X11 forwarding enabled and X display location set to :0.0 ). When I start Pidgin on FreeBSD 13.1 I get the following error. I tried setting the $DISPLAY environemental variable but this does not help. I also have xmonad window manager installed but not xserver on the FreeBSD machine. Do I need to install X11-server on the FreeBSD machine?
Code:
> setenv DISPLAY ':0.0'
> echo $DISPLAY
> pidgin
(Pidgin:73703): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 21:11:05.131: IA__gdk_display_get_name: assertion 'GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
Pidgin 2.14.10
** (Pidgin:73703): WARNING **: 21:11:05.131: cannot open display: unset