On 04.06.2013 19:31, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On rare occasions I want to run a remote X command (like 'meld' to
> interactively merge changes in files) and normally 'ssh -Y
> remote_host' from a terminal in an NX/freenx window that is acting as
> my desktop to start and any X program subsequently started would open
> in a new window via X-forwarding - at least when the target is a 5.x
> host. I don't do it often enough to remember if it ever worked when
> the remote side is 6.x, but today it is not setting the $DISPLAY
> variable, so I get:
> Error: Can't open display:
> Using -vv shows it at least trying to go through the motions:
>
> debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/bin/xauth list :1420.0 2>/dev/null
> debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
> debug2: channel 0: request x11-req confirm 0
> debug2: client_session2_setup: id 0
> debug2: channel 0: request pty-req confirm 1
> debug1: Sending environment.
> debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8
> debug2: channel 0: request env confirm 0
> debug2: channel 0: request shell confirm 1
> debug2: fd 3 setting TCP_NODELAY
>
> But, $DISPLAY is not set to anything. What am I missing?
Do you have the xorg-x11-xauth package installed on the remote system
you ssh into?
Regards,
Dennis
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