On rare occasions I want to run a remote X command (like 'meld' to interactively merge changes in files) and normally 'ssh -Y remote_host' from a terminal in an NX/freenx window that is acting as my desktop to start and any X program subsequently started would open in a new window via X-forwarding - at least when the target is a 5.x host. I don't do it often enough to remember if it ever worked when the remote side is 6.x, but today it is not setting the $DISPLAY variable, so I get: Error: Can't open display: Using -vv shows it at least trying to go through the motions:
debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/bin/xauth list :1420.0 2>/dev/null debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug2: channel 0: request x11-req confirm 0 debug2: client_session2_setup: id 0 debug2: channel 0: request pty-req confirm 1 debug1: Sending environment. debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8 debug2: channel 0: request env confirm 0 debug2: channel 0: request shell confirm 1 debug2: fd 3 setting TCP_NODELAY
But, $DISPLAY is not set to anything. What am I missing?
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com