[CentOS] Having difficulty exporting display

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Mon Jul 8 02:04:44 UTC 2013


Have you installed xorg-x11-xauth ?


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Yves S. Garret
<yoursurrogategod at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, sorry for the very long response, but to answer your question,
> set | grep DISP outputs nothing.  I still can't get the display to
> output.
>
> This is what happens when I try to export firefox:
> $ ssh someuser at somehostname.net firefox
> someuser at somehostname.net's password:
> Error: no display specified
> $ ssh -X someuser at somehostname.net firefox
> someuser at somehostname.net's password:
> Error: no display specified
> $ ssh -Y someuser at somehostname.net firefox
> someuser at somehostname.net's password:
> Error: no display specified
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Anthony K <akcentos at anroet.com> wrote:
>
> > On 19/04/13 06:42, Yves S. Garret wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > This is my issue, my remote machine (CentOS 6.3, hosted in Azure
> windows
> > > environment) has an application that I need to test on my local box
> > (CentOS
> > > 6.4, a laptop behind a router).
> > >
> > > Now, this is what I'm doing and the issue that I'm encountering:
> > > Local:
> > > $ xhost +
> > > $ ssh -X someusername at somehostname.net -p 49283
> > I don't believe you need to export DISPLAY, it should already be set by
> > virtue of using -X.  Try omitting the export below and just run xclock.
> > That ought to work.
> >
> > When you log in, what does set|grep DISP output?I always get the
> > following output:
> > DISPLAY=localhost:10.0
> >
> > And all my GUI apps end up on my local desktop!
> >
> > > Remote:
> > > $ export DISPLAY=192.168.1.6:0.0
> > > $ xclock
> > >
> > > ... and nothing, it just sits there and no xclock shows up :( .  I'm
> > fairly
> > > convinced
> > > that this is due to my router, but I don't know how to deal with it.
>  Any
> > > ideas?  Am I
> > > way off in my guess?
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