[Gllug] RuntimeError: could not open display

[Ryland, Peter]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 10:29 +0100, Jim Bailey wrote:
> # take your display with you at remote login:
> # Put it into your ~/.bash_profile
> whoami=`who -ml`
> remhost=`expr "$whoami" : '.*(\(.*\))'`
> if [ -n "$remhost" ]; then
> DISPLAY="$remhost":0.0
> export DISPLAY
> fi
> 
> 
> which should take care of remote logins though the material I was
> reading said ssh takes care of this automatically?
> 
> http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/January2002/article222.shtml

It does if it's configured to do so, but a lot of distros are no longer
having this on by default.  To find out, do: "grep
ForwardX11 /etc/ssh/ssh_config"

If you can't or don't want to turn it on system-wide, you can always do:
"ssh -X server"

HTH,
Pete


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