Have you installed xorg-x11-xauth ? On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Yves S. Garret <yoursurrogategod at gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, sorry for the very long response, but to answer your question, > set | grep DISP outputs nothing. I still can't get the display to > output. > > This is what happens when I try to export firefox: > $ ssh someuser at somehostname.net firefox > someuser at somehostname.net's password: > Error: no display specified > $ ssh -X someuser at somehostname.net firefox > someuser at somehostname.net's password: > Error: no display specified > $ ssh -Y someuser at somehostname.net firefox > someuser at somehostname.net's password: > Error: no display specified > > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Anthony K <akcentos at anroet.com> wrote: > > > On 19/04/13 06:42, Yves S. Garret wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > This is my issue, my remote machine (CentOS 6.3, hosted in Azure > windows > > > environment) has an application that I need to test on my local box > > (CentOS > > > 6.4, a laptop behind a router). > > > > > > Now, this is what I'm doing and the issue that I'm encountering: > > > Local: > > > $ xhost + > > > $ ssh -X someusername at somehostname.net -p 49283 > > I don't believe you need to export DISPLAY, it should already be set by > > virtue of using -X. Try omitting the export below and just run xclock. > > That ought to work. > > > > When you log in, what does set|grep DISP output?I always get the > > following output: > > DISPLAY=localhost:10.0 > > > > And all my GUI apps end up on my local desktop! > > > > > Remote: > > > $ export DISPLAY=192.168.1.6:0.0 > > > $ xclock > > > > > > ... and nothing, it just sits there and no xclock shows up :( . I'm > > fairly > > > convinced > > > that this is due to my router, but I don't know how to deal with it. > Any > > > ideas? Am I > > > way off in my guess? > > > _______________________________________________ > > > CentOS mailing list > > > CentOS at centos.org > > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >