Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: X11 Forwarding with SSH: $DISPLAY is empty!!

[Toby Dickenson]

On Tuesday 03 December 2002 4:59 pm, Denis Shcherbakov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to activate X forwarding while connecting to a remote machine via
> SSH.  So, I edited the config files for ssh on this remote machine, such
> as /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config, to set ForwardX11 to
> yes, etc....  However, after fooling around with all these config files, I
> still cannot get this remote machine to forward X, and I _think_ I know
> why.  It turns out that $DISPLAY is empty (unset) on that machine.

Is DISPLAY set on the machine you are connecting from? If no, thats your 
problem. If yes, try "ssh -v" for more clues.



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