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Re: Problem with remote system using Mac as display




On Nov 8, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Barto, David wrote:

In the past I've been able to do the following

Start remote shell on remote host setting display to point back to my Mac

   DISPLAY=<myip>:0.0
   export DISPLAY
   xterm &

and have the xterm start on my Mac. And since the display was 'at my Mac'
all X applications started in this shell displayed on my Mac as well.



is there a reason you aren't letting X11 forwarding work? If you use

 % ssh -Y remotehost

then $DISPLAY will be set automatically and that will allow remote display. I do this
all the time with leopard (don't set $DISPLAY on your Mac either).


I can confirm that on my system if I explicitly set $DISPLAY on the remote system it no longer
works for me but using ssh -Y works every time (once I configured sshkeychain to stop controlling my environment variables).


Tim

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Tim Jenness
Joint Astronomy Centre




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