Problem with X and ssh

[Bob Taylor]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:13 -0300, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
> Bob Taylor wrote:
> 
> >I can't find out *why* I'm getting the error: "(gnome-terminal:3021):
> >Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:" when using the command: "ssh
> >user at other gnome-terminal".

[snip]

> Hi.
> 
>   I think that you should use "ssh -x xxx at yyy.zzz"

Marcelo,

Many thanks! Don't know *why* I need -X (note: -x turns X-forwarding
off). This doesn't make any sense to me. That's why I didn't look at the
ssh man page.

Bob
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