Can't open display -- SOLVED

[Paul Howarth]

William Hooper wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>>Perhaps a -Y flag is required.
>>>I'm not sure what "trusted X11 forwarding" means.
>>>
>>
>>There's a brief mention of it in "man ssh_config". It's not normally
>>needed for the vast majority of apps
> 
> 
> My experience is the complete opposite.  Red Hat has even issued an Errata
> for RHEL 4 making trusted forwarding the default.  I believe the only apps
> I have personally seen that work with untrusted forwarding are things like
> xeyes and xterm (as long as you don't want to copy and paste).
> 
> Take a look at this comment from Mike Harris:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137685#c15

Interesting; just this morning I was remotely administering a SuSE box 
running yast2 over an ssh -X connection, last night I used rdesktop over 
one and I've definitely run firefox over one in the past. I wasn't doing 
much (any?) copying and pasting though.

Paul.