Remote X-Application on ubuntu server
Tim Jackson
tim.jackson at ints.com
Tue Dec 18 23:52:30 UTC 2007
Arnold Weber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have one machine "server" with ubuntu-server installed. I don't need a window-manager there, but sometimes i want to start single applications like that:
>
> ssh -X server gimp
>
> Do I have to install anything else than the application itself and it's dependencies? When I try I get a "
>
> DISPLAY is not set"-error. When I use the same ssh-command as above but connecting to a ubuntu-desktop-machine it works.
>
>
You need to have started from a system with a $DISPLAY, which means you
can't start from a console screen. You need to be in X to start with.
The -X is just port forwarding the X display from the remote box to the
local X server.
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