On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 01:40:12PM -0700, Ivan Chu wrote: > Hi there, > > here is the thing, I just put FC4 on my machine > (custom installation, basically I did not install > anything related to development, no web server, not > ftp, only SSH and mail server) Installation went > smooth, and everything is working great exept the X > windows. > > Problem is the following: if I open a new konsole > window and try to start any graphical application lets > say > > >thunderbird & > > it starts ok, > but if I do ssh to my own machine from the konsole > window opened, I can login OK, but I can not run > graphical applications from that session. > > some time (with differenr applications) I got message > "cannot connect to X server" > sometimes program simple does not start. > [1]+ Exit 1 thunderbird > > What am I missing in configuration? Any ideas? > > thank you > There is two things you need to do; 1. On the machine you are ssh-ing to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_conf to set: X11Forwarding yes 2. In file /etc/ssh/ssh_config on the local machine set: ForwardX11 yes and ForwardX11Trusted yes You might also look at the -X and -Y options on ssh. Although you don't need them if you change the files. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
