On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 11:55 -0500, Wojciech Komornicki wrote: > >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > [..snip..] > > Paul:> Why don't you use "ssh -X light.unix" on dark.unix, opening a secure > Paul:> connection from dark to light with X forwarding (i.e. running "prog" > Paul:> just works), so that you don't need to set up the tcp listening and > Paul:> don't have to mess about with "xhost" and $DISPLAY? > > Thanks for the suggestion but I tried that and still got the error > message. However, I will tinker again and see what happens. You're not still using the -display option are you? You don't need that either. The ssh session should create a $DISPLAY setting something like localhost:10.0, and this display is already set up, tunnelled down the ssh session and should "just work". Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
