[CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

Fri Aug 6 09:31:19 UTC 2010
Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org>

Dotan,

Do not do these steps:

On 6 August 2010 09:24, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
> [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$ nautilus --display=0:0
> cannot open display: 0:0

When you connect with sssh -X, it will create the tunnel and assign a
DISPLAY variable.
hakan at hakan-laptop:10:29:51:~$ ssh -X hobbit
Last login: Thu Aug  5 09:45:59 2010 from 10.15.1.99
more cowbells!
 _________________________________________
/ It is impossible to defend perfectly    \
| against the attack of those who want to |
\ die.                                    /
 -----------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
[hakan at hobbit ~]$ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0

and then you can run Nautilus w/o a problem, with no options necessary.

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