On Fri, 14 May 2004, Guy Fraser wrote: > > I recently got a FreeBSD 5.2 box to forward X to my FC1 box. > I had struggled with that box for some time and could not figure out why > it was not working. I have other FreeBSD boxes that forward X quite > well. Finally a couple of days ago I decided to install a complete XF86 > setup rather than just the libs. Killed sshd started sshd then logged > out. After > logging back in I could run nedit and it worked. Most likely you did not have 'xauth' installed on the remote machine. Without this - ssh-xforwarding doesn't work. > I have on occasion come across a machine or two that required the > environment variable 'DISPLAY' to be set and exported in > .bash_profile like this : > > export DISPLAY='localhost:0.0' > > I don't know if DISPLAY=':0.0' would work or not, because I didn't try. Yeah the DISPLAY env variable needs to be set to a 'working' value before ssh can forward it (it also needs to forward 'xauth' for this display value correclty). And with cygwin-shell - it is usually not set. Satish
