--- "Reuben D. Budiardja" <techlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió: > On Saturday 28 February 2004 10:14 am, IT Clown > wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am using say pc A to ssh -X to connect to pc > B.When i > > type startx x will load on B but i cannot see it > running on > > A. How is it possible to have x show on pc A. > ForwardAgent > > yes ForwardX11 yes is enabled in ssh_config on pc > A and B. > > "startx" will start an X server, not X application. > As far as I understand, > you cannot export X server, you need to have that > locally. > The command "ssh -X" will tell SSH to export X > application. > > So if you want to export X application from pc B to > pc A, you need to have an > X server running on pc A so that the X application > on pc B can connect to the > X server on pc A. Thus, you need to run the "startx" > on pc A. Try this: > > on pc A: > 1. run "startx" > 2. Open a console, "ssh -X" to pc B and login. > 3. Now run an X apps, eg, "mozilla". > 4. You will see that Mozilla is displayed locally on > pc A, but it's actually > running from pc B. > > What happens above is that you start an X server on > pc A, and then connect an > X application (ie. mozilla) from pc B to pc A so > that it got displayed on pc > A. > > Hope that helps. > RDB First, your sshd server must allow X-Forwarding, you can configure it on your sshd configuration file, search for this line: X11Forwarding = yes And then you can ejecute, for example mozilla, and it will run In case that your server will not allow X-Forwarding you need to export display: export DISPLAY=ip_remote_host_:0.0 And that's all ;) In my opinion, if you can configure the sshd (if you're the admin of the machine you connect to) you should put: X11Forwarding = yes And won't need to export DISPLAY anymore ;) Cheers > > -- > Reuben D. Budiardja > Department of Physics and Astronomy > The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN > --------------------------------------------------------- > "To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to > destroy > something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy > > Microsoft. That will just be a completely > unintentional > side effect." > - Linus Torvalds - > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ===== -- Manuel Aróstegui Linux user 200896 ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
