Re: How do you export an x-session in Fedora

["Bevan C. Bennett" <bevan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keven Ring wrote:
> Edward Croft wrote:
>
> > One of my coworkers is trying to export his Xwindows desktop to another
> > machine and is having no luck. The error he gets is similar to the one
> > below.
> >
> > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:0
> >
> > We tried something different and this is the response.
> >
> > 201]==> setenv DISPLAY ecroft:0
> > [202]==> xterm
> > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> >
> >
> >  
> How about an xhost +<machine name> on ecroft, where <machine name> is 
> the machine that you are running the xterm on?

How about just using ssh's built-in X-forwarding?
It's really one of the best features of ssh, as it can pretty well do 
away with all that horrible DISPLAY fiddling and xhost munging.

[bevan@saladin ~]> ssh odin
[bevan@odin ~]> printenv DISPLAY
localhost:18.0
[bevan@odin ~]> xterm &
[1] 4491
<xterm appears>