exporting display
Guy Fraser
guy at incentre.net
Fri Jan 7 21:47:48 UTC 2005
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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