Can't run emacs (specifically) on X over ssh

Greg Brigley greg at etymonic.com
Fri Feb 13 19:51:43 UTC 2004


I'm having problems running emacs via ssh on FC1.  

Running emacs directly works fine, but if I ssh to localhost and try to run 
emacs, it just stops and waits (apparently indefinitely) until I kill it.  
There are no error messages.

The same thing happens if I ssh to the FC1 box from elsewhere.

Other x clients work fine including, for example: xclock, gedit, and nautilus.

Within the ssh session:

echo $DISPLAY gives me:
localhost:13.0

emacs works fine if I bypass ssh forwarding, such as:
>emacs -display :0.0
or
>emacs -display anothermachine:0.0
but not if I do:
>emacs -display localhost:13.0


Any ideas?

Greg





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