Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 16:42:02 +0000 From: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redirecting output in XFree86-4 under 5.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <F688j7c7NK23EexdDbj0000eedd@hotmail.com>
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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 _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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