[SHR] X forwarding: export DISPLAY?

[W. B. Kranendonk]

--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Xavier Cremaschi <omega.xavier at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Xavier Cremaschi <omega.xavier at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [SHR] X forwarding: export DISPLAY?
> To: community at lists.openmoko.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 4:10 PM
> Basically, you need
> 
> a computer with :
> - a working X server (mainly Xorg)
> - a working ssh client with -X option (mainly
> openssh-client)
> (Note for working X server on cygwin : be sure to launch
> xterm, not the
> basic tty)
> 
> a Freerunner with :
> - a working X client (the app you want to launch, tangogps
> for example)
> - a working ssh server with "X11Forwarding yes" in its
> config (for
> openssh-server it's in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, be sure to
> restart ssh
> server after any modification to this file)
> 
> 
> Then give us any error you can see while doing your ssh
> -X.
> 
> On the freerunner, and after a ssh -X, $DISPLAY should NOT
> be :
>     localhost:0
> because it's the X server of the freerunner, but it should
> be something
> like :
>     localhost:10.0
> which is where ssh server listen to transmit your display
> data to ssh
> client.
> 
> 
> Xavier.
> 
> 
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