7.04: X11 remote display problem

[Joachim Schrod]

bill purvis wrote:
> I'm still having no joy with getting anything to open a remote X11
> window on my laptop since I changed to Ubuntu from Mandrake.
> 
> I'm using ssh to log in to my server (and yes I've tried using ssh -X
> but that makes no difference). Once I'm logged in I try to start an
> emacs window on the laptop:
> 
> server$ echo $DISPLAY
> felix:0.0

Something in your profile sets $DISPLAY; this is *not* the DISPLAY 
tunnel from ssh. ssh starts to use displays 10 and following on the 
local host; i.e., $DISPLAY should be localhost:10.0 or similar.

With your current setting, your trying to really connect to your X 
server on felix, not via the ssh tunnel, but directly. (As you said 
yourself in your original post -- I can't say how you can configure 
the X wrapper, sorry.) You might want to remove that DISPLAY env 
var setting and use the ssh X11 forwarding at first.

But, if you discover how one configures the X wrapper to allow 
remote connections, make sure to post it, so others can find it in 
the list archives.

Cheers,
	Joachim

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Joachim Schrod				Email: jschrod at acm.org
Roedermark, Germany