Remote X-Application on ubuntu server

[Tim Jackson]

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.