exporting display

[Guy Fraser]

Since installing FC3 ssh -X doesn't work for me any more.

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 15:13 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 13:08, James Pifer wrote:
> 
> > As a normal user on both machines I get the exact same behavior. In
> > response to the other post, I only left out the :0 when I typed it. In
> > the commands I was actually using it. 
> > 
> > Any other suggestions? I don't see anything in Xorg.0.log. Maybe I
> > should install and run ethereal and make sure it's even trying?
> 
> Why not let ssh's magic X forwarding do the work?
> >From Client:
>  ssh -X user at server
>  ..log in..
>  $gedit  (or any X program)
> 
> A window should open on Client with gedit running on Server.
> 
> The -X option is the default for most versions of ssh so you may not
> need to type it but it shouldn't hurt anyway.  Ssh does some contortions
> to make the $DISPLAY look like an alternate local screen to the program
> and tunnels it over the encrypted ssh connections to your local end.
> 
> -- 
>   Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
> 
> 
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Guy Fraser
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