Can't open display -- SOLVED
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jul 5 15:49:31 UTC 2005
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, James Kaufman wrote:
>
>
>>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.
There's a brief mention of it in "man ssh_config". It's not normally
needed for the vast majority of apps, and there are security
implications in using it.
Paul.
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