Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:27:15 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: frank@shute.org.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh -X (X11 forwarding) not working from 6.1 to 8.1 Message-ID: <4e1c59c3.T5kMrjV/l%2BlA16KI%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20110712062255.GA45128@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <4e1c1f5f.LsZHLb8pZocKlPVV%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20110712062255.GA45128@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:18:07AM -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > > DISPLAY is not getting set in a remote shell started by "ssh -X". ... > Have you tried putting: > > DISPLAY=:0.0 > > in ~/.ssh/environment on the machine that's not setting DISPLAY > properly? Wouldn't that cause the remote app -- which is running on the ssh server -- to (try to) use that machine's own local display? A port-forwarded connection normally has something along the lines of DISPLAY=localhost:10.0 (but it can't be hard-coded, because the "10" part will vary depending on what-all port-forwarded connections exist).
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