sshd and X

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:

> 	ssh -Y me@W2KBox
> 
> 	Once I am logged in, I'd like to run an X11 application. For example
> xcalc.
> 
> 	If I execute xcalc, I get the following output 
> 
> $ xcalc
> Error: Can't open display:
> 
> 	If I check the environment variables, there is no DISPLAY variable.

Either X11Forwarding is disabled in the server or some login scripts 
reset the DISPLAY variable.

Check http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding 

bye
	ago
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