[NTLUG:Discuss] X over SSH again...

brad angelcyk bradangelcyk at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 29 11:17:22 CDT 2003


Try a "host gorky" command.  It might not be able to
reverse that hostname.  What you may need to do is a
"export DISPLAY='<ipaddress>:10.0'".  Or add "gorky"
to your /etc/hosts file.

Brad



--- Stephen Davidson <gorky at freenet.carleton.ca>
wrote:
> Hi Brad.
> 
> Your command returns;
> declare -x DISPLAY="gorky:10.0"
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
> 
> brad angelcyk wrote:
> > If you do a "export | grep DISPLAY", what does it
> > return?  BASH will autoset this environment
> variable
> > if you use the -X switch on the ssh command.
> > 
> > Brad
> > 
> > 
> > --- Stephen Davidson <gorky at freenet.carleton.ca>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >>Greetings.
> >>
> >>My X over SSH is acting up again.  I did not
> change
> >>anything, so I have no idea what the problem is.
> >>
> >>Now, I am getting;
> >>Error: Couldn't find per display information
> >>
> >>If anyone could give me a hint as to what is the
> >>problem, and where, it would be greatly
> appreciated.
> >>
> 
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> 
> 
> 
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