Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:43:43 -0600 From: "Charles S. Libby" <Charles.S.Libby@motorola.com> To: clayton rollins <crollins666@hotmail.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redirecting output in XFree86-4 under 5.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <3E413F3F.1090602@motorola.com> In-Reply-To: <F688j7c7NK23EexdDbj0000eedd@hotmail.com> References: <F688j7c7NK23EexdDbj0000eedd@hotmail.com>
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The Display Variable will be sent to remote hosts if the SSH server has
X11Relay Configured. This is found in the sshd_config file. It can
also be set up as a relay agent to forward displays. We use this to
connect with my lab through a proxy server.
Charles
clayton rollins wrote:
> You can set ssh to export the display variable through the
> $user/.ssh/environment script with a line like 'export
> DISPLAY=<your_IP>:0'
>
> hope that helps you some.
>
> Peace,
> Clayton
>
>> -> > I've recently installed XFree86-4 under 5.0-RELEASE and I didn't
>> have a
>> -> > solution to redirect the graphical output of a remote host to mine.
>> -> > After enabling the remote host with 'xhost' in the localhost and
>> setting
>> -> > the 'DISPLAY' variable under the SSH session, when I start a
>> graphical
>> -> > program it returns 'unable to open display'.
>> ->
>> -> Well, what I was suppose to say was that, did you try to redirect
>> -> the X using the -X flag in ssh? Then you wouldn't have to play
>> -> around with xhost and the DISPLAY variable at all.
>> ->
>> -> ssh -X you@your.server
>> ->
>>
>> Thanks! But it didn't solve the problem :-(
>>
>> SSH doesn't set the DISPLAY variable on the remote hosts.
>>
>> I think that those Linux boxes don't wanna give me his services
>> anymore :-D
>
>
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