SSH Display Problem

[Gunnar vS Kramm]

Original e-mail from: Stephen Walton (stephen.walton at csun.edu):

> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 10:45, Gunnar vS Kramm wrote:
> > Original e-mail from: Mike Chepesky (pesky1229 at hotmail.com):
> > 
> > > I have a problem relating to SSH and how it handles the creation of new 
> > > xterm windows.
> > It might be that the admins of you server on campus have configured sshd to
> > not allow X11 forwarding.
> 
> If that were the case, the original poster would get an immediate "No
> DISPLAY Environment variable" error when starting an X-only application,
> and MATLAB would fall back to its text interface.
> 
> The problem is speed.  Even on a direct 100baseT link, MATLAB takes a
> long time to start via X forwarding.  I'd suggest using VNC and running
> MATLAB inside it.  It is much faster, especially the version 4 beta from
> realvnc.com which FC1 ships with.
> 
> -- 
> Stephen Walton <stephen.walton at csun.edu>
> Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
> 
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Stephen,

you are correct if X11 forwarding was turned off he would get that error.
So that's not it.


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