On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 18:38, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org> wrote: > Dotan, > > On 25 July 2010 16:32, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at 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. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com