you could try vnc - works great On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Harri Haataja wrote: > 2009/8/21 R. A. Bilonick <rab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > I can connect to my N810 using: > >> ssh -X -C user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > But when I try to run the browser: > >> browser & > > the browser opens on the N810, not the PC (which is running Ubuntu > > 9.04). In the ssh_config, I have X forwarding enabled. How can I get the > > apps to display on the PC, not the N810? > > You could try ssh -v ... and see if the verbose output contains notes > about what happened with negotiating X forwarding. See also what > $DISPLAY is set to within the ssh session (shell). xdpyinfo in the > session should give information about the current display (device's or > PC's) so you can use that to test the forwarding better than some > insanely elaborate scheme like the browser. > > xauth command missing is a common cause for broken forwarding. It > might just be stupidity with dbus and launching mess and running > browser actually doesn't, it just gets the device to wake one up. It > might just be "Not supported". > > -- > I appear to be temporarily using gmail's horrible interface. I > apologise for any failure in my part in trying to make it do the right > thing with post formatting. > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
