Zenity pop up on remote desktop

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> wrote:
> 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.

Am I misunderstanding where you are going with this hint?
I don't want to run it locally, I don't want to display it locally.
The ssh session could be started on something without X at all.
I want the X11 server on the remote end to display something on the
currently running X session on the remote end.
I don't want anything on my end.

Brian