Re: Forwarding X11 connections from another Mac
Re: Forwarding X11 connections from another Mac
- Subject: Re: Forwarding X11 connections from another Mac
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:02:18 +0100 (CET)
+ Adam Mercer <email@hidden>:
> Sometimes I need to display an xterm, for example, on my home laptop
> from my work machine. For example, from home I ssh into the remote mac
> and start an xterm. However this xterm is not forwarded on the local
> Xserver, as it appears that the DISPLAY variable is not set
> accordingly when connecting to the remote Mac:
>
> [ram@local ~]$ echo $DISPLAY
> /tmp/launch-rHPXRo/:0
> [ram@local ~]$ ssh -Y remote
> Last login: Tue Feb 10 16:50:08 2009 from local
> [ram@remote ~]$ echo $DISPLAY
> :0.0
In all likelihood, that is because your login script on the remote
machine sets the DISPLAY variable.
- Harald
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