Can't Remote my Display

Boworr · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:43 am Post subject: Can't Remote my Display

I can't figure this out and could use some help.

On my Thinkpad I open a terminal window, and type the following just to make sure X security is off.

Cuardin · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:22 am Post subject:

You are making it more complicated than you should, and besides you are mixing some things up.

Now, first of all, X is a pain in the but to understand. I don't. But I forward X exessively at home and therefore I leart the recepies.

When you SSH you let SSH take care of everything. So start by configuring SSH. On the ssh server, make sure "X11Forwarding yes" is set.

Then, on the client, run "ssh -Y <server>"
At this point, the ssh server will have created a virtual display on the server, probably :0.10 or some such. You do not need to know about this or care. However, all programs starded in you ssh session will attempt to connect to this display. When they do, the ssh server catches them and sends the info to your ssh client. Your client will then post the info you your current display.

So: Do not mess with the -display or anything else.

PS If you donät want to type -Y, make sure "ForwardX11 yes" and "ForwardX11Trusted yes" are set in the clients config.
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brian33x51 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 118

Ummm..I consider your answer to be the "wrong answer".

Setting the display variable and running an application has worked for the past 12 years as far as I know, that is until the xorg release.

My question, why is it broken and what tricks do I need to use to get it to work again?

Right now I have a mixtured of redhat 7.3 boxes and some fedora core2 boxes in addition to a small gentoo cluster. It's definitely an administrative pain to have to deal with this.