Satish Balay wrote:
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.
Aha. Thanx, I'll check to see which pakage provides it.
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
