Thanks, that did the trick. For some reason I was under the impression that global directives in the ssh_config file were honoured if they weren't set in the user's own config file. TD On Wednesday 25 Jan 2006 14:08, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote: > > On Monday 23 Jan 2006 21:08, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > > > Tony Dietrich wrote: > > > > I'm in the process of installing FC3 after leaving RH9. > > > > > > > > I'm used to enabling X11 over ssh with RH9, but making > > > > the same changes > > > > > > to FC3 get me errors ... > > > > > > > > Unable to open Display# > > > > > > > > or similar. > > > > > > > > > > > > Anyone please point me in the right direction? Whats > > > > changed with FC3? > > > > > Try ssh -Y instead of ssh -X. > > If forwarding X11 is normal for you, you can put > > ForwardX11 yes > ForwardX11Trusted yes > > in your $HOME/.ssh/config file. > Some revisions of ssh need the ForwardX11Trusted and some complain > about it. My FC3 machine has it on and my FC4 machine has it commented > out. > > Bob Styma