X programs from chroot

[rdmelin]

I would like to be able to run X programs (e.g. synaptic) from my chrooted source directory and have them use the display of my host system. Can someone tell me what I need to do to make that happen. A recent post covered how to start kde from chroot using Xnest and that worked as advertized but its not what I need. I have started sshd on the chrooted system and used X forwarding via ssh but it seems there should be a simpler way. Sorry if this has been covered and I missed it.

[Ghandalfar]

enable incoming connections on you X11

then in your chroot do:

export DISPLAY=":0"


and it will work

[rdmelin]

Thanx. That did the trick.

[ignuu2]

It didn't work for me. I enabled x connections with xhost+ and it said clients could connect from anywhere but chroot still tells me can't connect to X server :0

How do I enable the connection?

[ignuu2]

It worked but I had to export my display to 127.0.0.1:0

thanks