Connect X to X

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 18:41:42 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 11:12 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> Now, as far as using ssh to run a specific program on a remote
> machine, it still works fine as long as X forwarding is enabled in
> ssh. You do not have to set DISPLAY because ssh takes care of it, as
> well as everything else that is needed. But you do have to ssh from
> the account that is logged into X on the local machine. It works
> best if you ssh from a terminal opened in the X secession.

The default changed to break this as of FC5, though.  You now
have to use 'ssh -Y hostname' to make it work.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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