/usr/bin/xterm Xt error

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Aug 7 10:43:06 UTC 2006


Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> On 8/7/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>> Frank Cox wrote:
>> > On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:26:11 +0530
>> > Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>      ssh -X remotehost
>> >>      export DISPLAY= <local box ip>:0.0
>> >>      /usr/bin/xterm Xt error: Can't open display: IP:0.0
>> >
>> > /ssh/sshd_config:
>> >
>> > X11Forwarding yes
>>
>> And don't bother with "export DISPLAY=..." because sshd sets $DISPLAY to
>> the right value when you're using X forwarding.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
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> Hi Paul
> 
> I did unset the display
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
> 
> It gave me the above error

I didn't say to unset it; after running ssh, don't change the value it's 
already set to.

Paul.




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