SSH Display Problem

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Tue Feb 3 04:57:10 UTC 2004


On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Mike Chepesky wrote:

> I have a problem relating to SSH and how it handles the creation of new 
> xterm windows. I have an account at my school, and I can log in via SSH 
> using "ssh -l login_name server_name". When in the labs on campus, there is 
> an X Windows environment, and when certain programs are run (e.g. Matlab, 
> emacs), another xterm window will be created.
> 
> However, when I log in remotely using the above command, and run "matlab" or 
> "emacs", the system just seems to hang, not creating a new xterm window. I 
> looked around for a solution, and it seemed that it might be in the 
> /etc/ssh/ssh_config file. However, this is read-only and cannot be modified, 
> nor can the permissions be changed using chmod. Any suggestions?

Did you try 'ssh -X' - and made sure the display is set correctly?
something like:

ssh -X -l login_name server_name
echo $DISPLAY #for eg: 'localhost:11.0'
xterm

Satish





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