Zenity pop up on remote desktop

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 11:26 -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I remember having this conversation before (maybe the Debian users
> mailing list?) a while ago, but don't remember the outcome.
> 
> I want to pop up an informational window on a remote computer.
> e.g. zenity --warning --text 'hi mom'
> does what I want on the computer I'm sitting at, but if I ssh into a
> remote machine and run that command you get 'cant open display' even
> if run as the user that currently owns the desktop.  How do I get it
> running on that display?

You need to turn on X11 forwarding.  It is off by default.  You need to
turn it on on both the client and server.  Client config file
is /etc/ssh/ssh_config and the server config file
is /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
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