Hi
Thanks for coming back to me so quickly. Much appreciated.
Quote:
Originally Posted by b0uncer
1) make sure sshd allows X11 forwarding
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Forgot to say in the original post that sshd is configured to allow forwarding
Quote:
Originally Posted by b0uncer
2) try to launch the app and define the DISPLAY variable, for example
Code:
DISPLAY=:0 someprog
if that was a good format in your case. The above (setting DISPLAY to :0) worked for me when I ran some apps with Wine over ssh; other programs worked just fine with X11 forwarding but Wine didn't do anything before setting DISPLAY.
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Just tried to do this with one of the redhat configs:
Code:
DISPLAY=:0 system-config-users
and get
Code:
system-config-users requires a currently running X server.
when I try yumex, I'm now getting a different error:
Code:
[root@xxxxxx ~]# DISPLAY=:0 yumex
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 24, in ?
import gtk
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 76, in ?
_init()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in _init
_gtk.init_check()
RuntimeError: could not open display
[root@xxxxxx ~]#