2010/8/6 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>: > I need to open a Nautilus window on a headless server, but no matter > what I try it complains about the display: > > ✈dcl:~$ xhost + localhost > localhost being added to access control list > ✈dcl:~$ ssh -X user at ip.address > [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 > Run 'nautilus --help' to see a full list of available command line options. > [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$ > > Googling the situation it looks like I've covered all the steps: > enabling remote X, X forwarding, display export and telling Nautilus > which display to use. Any other ideas? Thanks! install xorg-x11-xauth on server and then just ssh -X user at ip -- Eero