[Wylug-discuss] How to connect to X-server

[James Holden]

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On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 12:55, John Hodrien wrote:

> Assuming you've got a capable OpenSSH setup, you should just use
>
> ssh -X sun_machine
>
> the DISPLAY variable should auto set to something like localhost:10.0
>
> Things should "just work" as X gets tunnelled over the ssh connection.

Yes, but X11Forwarding must be set to Yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the
server. It sometimes isn't by default.

> You didn't say how you're connecting though, so there's some assumptions going
> on there.
>
> The way you are doing it doesn't work on a current Fedora box, as X is run
> with -nolisten tcp which prevents that technique from working.

Many distros are set up this way now. You have to restart the X server
to enable it, after editing your display manager config.

James


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