Can't open display -- SOLVED

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 11:55 -0500, Wojciech Komornicki wrote:
> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> writes:
> 
>   [..snip..]
> 
>   Paul:> Why don't you use "ssh -X light.unix" on dark.unix, opening a secure
>   Paul:> connection from dark to light with X forwarding (i.e. running "prog"
>   Paul:> just works), so that you don't need to set up the tcp listening and
>   Paul:> don't have to mess about with "xhost" and $DISPLAY?
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion but I tried that and still got the error
> message.  However, I will tinker again and see what happens.

You're not still using the -display option are you? You don't need that
either. The ssh session should create a $DISPLAY setting something like
localhost:10.0, and this display is already set up, tunnelled down the
ssh session and should "just work".

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>