F11 - X forwarding display problem

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sun May 31 14:15:07 UTC 2009


John wrote:
> Hi all,
> I recently installed F11 Preview (from live CD) on 2 of my laptops and I
> cannot run X apps remotely from these machines anymore. I get a message
> like: "(gedit:4221): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> localhost:10.0". That means that the app is running on the remote
> machine (there's a PID) but I can't get the display on the local
> machine. The F11 machines can successfully run remote X apps from any
> machine that's not running F11. I've been looking for a solution for
> several days and I'm getting desperate
> 
First read:

Guidelines:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Then look at the -Y option of ssh, and your sshd server config file.

Mikkel
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  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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