Can't open display -- SOLVED

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, James Kaufman wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:11:14AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Paul.
> > --
> > Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> >
>
> He is saying that when he is on dark.unix and logs into light.unix (ssh -X
> light.unix), he can't run an application on light.unix and have it display on
> dark.unix.
>
> Note that logging in and then running an application is different from doing it
> all at once like his example.
>
> [this works]
> ssh -X light.unix app-name
>
> [this doesn't work]
> ssh -X light.unix
> app-name

Perhaps a -Y flag is required.
I'm not sure what "trusted X11 forwarding" means.

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