> 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Ok here's my hosts file: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.102 dan Nope nothing else is setting the display environment variable DISPLAY. As per the diagram below of what I'm doing, the "intermediary box" has its envrionment variable set to "localhost:10.0" but the "remote box" has its environment defaulted to dan:0.0. How can I get dan to send X through the ssh connection. my box -----> intermediary box ------> remote box (dan) between each I am using ssh -X ( I tried -Y aswell) Thanks Dan