How to run _X_ Session from RH8 via ssh -X?

[René Berber]

Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> [snip]
> Why does  /usr/X11R6/bin/xclock still say "Error can't open display:"?

That looks like an explicit unsetting of DISPLAY, i.e. somewhere, probably your
.profile/.bashrc/.bash_profile, has a "unset DISPLAY".

Starting in Cygwin:
$ echo $DISPLAY
:0
$ ssh -X root@x.y.z
# echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0

Notice that ssh created a pseudo display that will be used to tunnel the X
protocol back to your local X server.
-- 
René Berber


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