X11 forwarding over ssh with FC3 onward

Tony Dietrich td at transoft-adsl.demon.co.uk
Tue Jan 24 23:58:24 UTC 2006


On Monday 23 Jan 2006 21:08, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Tony Dietrich wrote:
> > I'm in the process of installing FC3 after leaving RH9.
> >
> > I'm used to enabling X11 over ssh with RH9, but making the same changes
> > to FC3 get me errors ...
> >
> > Unable to open Display#
> >
> > or similar.
> >
> >
> > Anyone please point me in the right direction?  Whats changed with FC3?
>
> Try ssh -Y instead of ssh -X.
>
>
> - Mike

Thanks Mike, that did the trick

TD




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