X forwarding

[René Berber]

SteveS wrote:
[snip]
> In Cywin I then do
> 
> ssh -Y username@hostname
> 
> and get a command prompt from the Ubuntu server. Running a graphical app (eg
> gedit) returns
> 
> cannot open display: (null)
> 
> There are suggestions online to manually set the display, but as I
> understand that's incorrect if you are doing X forwarding.

The suggestion meant to set DISPLAY on the client side (Cygwin), you are correct
about not changing it on the server side.

Just do:

export DISPLAY=localhost:0:0
ssh -Y ...
-- 
René Berber


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