Dan Track wrote: > On 6/23/05, William Hooper <whooperhsd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> Dan Track wrote: >> >>> I have done this on the remote client: >>> >>> >>> >>> export DISPLAY=x.x.x.x:0.0 >>> >>> (x.x.x.x is my desktop, X is not listening on port 6000) >>> >> >> Then you aren't using the OpenSSH forwarding. Leave the DISPLAY alone >> and see what happens. > > Hi > Yep I left it alone but is says this: > > > gthumb Xlib: connection to "dan:0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > > > (gthumb:24899): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > > Dan is the name of the remote client. Do you have anything else setting DISPLAY? When used by SSH, it should be something like "DISPLAY=localhost:10.0". Does it fail if you run something simple (like xlogo)? Also, just a hunch, but post the contents of your /etc/hosts file. -- William Hooper
