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Using GUI apps with Xming and PuTTY on Windows

I'm new to linux and connecting to a centOS server through PuTTY. And I want to use GUI apps like gedit, google-chrome, etc on it. I installed Xming on my windows 10 pc and enabled X11 forwarding in ...
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The virt-manager displays "Gtk couldn't be initialized"

I am running the virt-manager on RHEL 7.0, but it always display "Gtk couldn't be initialized": [root@dhb5 ~]# virt-manager --debug --nofork 2015-08-17 03:21:09,895 (cliutils:75): virt-manager ...
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Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display

I have centos 6 minimal (headless) as a Host and installed ubuntu 14.04 Desktop as a guest and using KVM. There is a web application deployed inside Guest, and it opens and closes one GTK ...
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GTK apps from remote server look bad

I ssh into my headless remote server with X11 forwarding. All my remote GTK apps from remote server look rather ugly. My default GTK theme is not applied. I think this has something to do with GTK ...
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$DISPLAY dependent gtk themes

I have a computer at home that I log into remotely. The "monitor" for it is a TV, so I want gtk applications to use a large font and icon theme, which I managed to do by editing the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file ...
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How do I fix a "cannot open display" error when opening an X program after ssh'ing with X11 forwarding enabled?

After launching the X11 app (XQuartz 2.3.6, xorg-server 1.4.2-apple56) on my Mac (OS X 10.6.8), opening an terminal in X11 and running xhost +, I then ssh -Y to my Ubuntu 10.04 VM (running on VMware ...
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x11 looks ugly while opening a remote window from ssh. Can I use GTK themes?

I use to connect to a distant computer running linux from my mac using ssh. For example I use: $ ssh -Y login@host then $ gnome-open . in order to open a nautilus window. This window do open but ...
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