On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 18:38, Hakan Koseoglu hakan@koseoglu.org wrote:
Dotan,
On 25 July 2010 16:32, Dotan Cohen dotancohen@gmail.com wrote:
However, when I do this I get no response (no firefox window opens, no terminal output), even after several minutes. I figured that was because X is not running.
That's not the reason. You don't run X on the server for such purposes. You already run it on your own PC. In such cases the server runs on your PC, the client is the app you are running. I know it sounds backward but that's the case.
Actually, I do understand that unusual server/client relationship. But I thought that X had to be running on the remote machine too. I am happily corrected!
Are you sure you have enough bandwidth? Try running something simple like xterm. Also X11 forwarding might have been turned off in sshd_config.
I don't. After 15 minutes the square of the supposed Firefox window came up. That's painful! But therein lies the problem.
Thanks.