X11 trouble (displaying windows from one Linux machine on another)

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Tue Apr 26 19:44:24 UTC 2005


Am Di, den 26.04.2005 schrieb Coert Waagmeester um 18:24:

> have two Linux systems.
> want to display all X stuff from machine1 on machine2
> They can see each other one the network, all fine.
> 
> typed 'export DISPLAY=machine2:0.0'
> 
> then typed xclock and it said: 'cant open display on machine2:0.0'

Making a connection to the remote machine using SSH, then don't try to
export the DISPLAY manually. Using "ssh -X" || "ssh -Y" for X11
forwarding the DISPLAY environment is set automatically.

> Coert

Alexander


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