GUI apps through ssh
Satish Balay
balay@fastmail.fm
Mon Feb 28 21:39:00 GMT 2005
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Mike wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, artem_ave might have said:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have Win 2000 machine running Cygwin (with X Server) and i'm trying to
> > launch GUI apps from remote Solaris system via ssh (with -X option).
> > Whatever DISPLAY I set in my ssh session it says:
> > ... Xt error: Can't open display: ...
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> Do you have the local X server running?
>
> start bash (double-click on the cygwin icon)
> start x ($ startx)
> make the ssh connection (ssh -X HOST)
> try something graphic ($ xterm)
Also - if invoking ssh from a regular bash-cmd [not xterm] - make sure
your display variable is properly set.
i.e
setenv DISPLAY :0.0
ssh -Y remotemachine
xterm
Satish
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