On 3/29/11 4:45 AM, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, ken wrote:
>
>> Like the error says, you need to specify the display. I.e., on the
>> remote machine you must set the environmental variable "DISPLAY"...
>> something like
>>
>> (export DISPLAY=192.168.1.42:0.0& firefox)
>>
>> Though this may work, this may well reveal another, different error, one
>> having to do generally with permissions. But we'll take them one at a time.
>
> Do *not* follow this advice. It's bad practice, insecure, and actually more
> work than being secure, and more likely not to work. Plenty of X servers are
> configured to not listen on your network interface for example.
>
> ssh -X / -Y is your friend, as others have suggested.
Although if you regularly run GUI programs remotely, you might want to set up
freenx and use the NX client - at least for situations where you want the whole
desktop and/or need to work over connections with high latency where normal
remote or tunneled X is slow. You don't have to be running X on the remote
side's console to use it.
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Les Mikesell
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