How do you export an x-session in Fedora

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Keven Ring wrote:
> Edward Croft wrote:
> 
>> One of my coworkers is trying to export his Xwindows desktop to another
>> machine and is having no luck. The error he gets is similar to the one
>> below.
>>
>> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:0
>>
>> We tried something different and this is the response.
>>
>> 201]==> setenv DISPLAY ecroft:0
>> [202]==> xterm
>> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
>> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> How about an xhost +<machine name> on ecroft, where <machine name> is 
> the machine that you are running the xterm on?

How about just using ssh's built-in X-forwarding?
It's really one of the best features of ssh, as it can pretty well do 
away with all that horrible DISPLAY fiddling and xhost munging.

[bevan at saladin ~]> ssh odin
[bevan at odin ~]> printenv DISPLAY
localhost:18.0
[bevan at odin ~]> xterm &
[1] 4491
<xterm appears>