start mozilla through x term

bm1 · 03-08-2004, 07:18 PM

hows it, iam trying to get mozilla to start in ssh. i use xterm to do this and i get an error like

Starting mozilla....

(mozilla-bin:26877): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

when i had redhat 9 installed i could get it to work using default kde. i use fluxbox and its default is xterm. should i use a different one or something? any ideas, thanks

win32sux · 03-08-2004, 07:27 PM

you mean your giving the mozilla command to a remote computer via ssh???

bm1 · 03-08-2004, 07:40 PM

i think thats what it is

mhiggins · 03-08-2004, 07:55 PM

If you are using ssh at all... you may need to give the -X option when connecting.

ssh -X hostYouWantToConnectTo

bm1 · 03-09-2004, 01:07 AM

yeah sorry if my post is not coherent. i use ssh to logon into our school computers. to hand in an assignment you have to be on the school computers. you have to hand in your assignment through a web based system. i want to be able to start a mozilla browser through ssh on my school computers from home. i used to do this with red hat 9.0. so i know it can be done. so my question is how do i do it in slackware 9.0.

bm1 · 03-09-2004, 03:28 AM

im at home now and i tried the -X option and it worked. thanks very much, you have saved me alot of hours spent in the school labs.

OdieQ · 03-09-2004, 07:09 AM

I would heartily recommend using the arcfour encryption and turning on compression when running X over ssh. This speeds things up quite a bit.

My ~/.ssh/ssh_config looks like this:

Code:

Host *
  ForwardX11 yes
  Cipher arcfour,blowfish
  Compression yes

You can of course also specify these options on the command line.

trey85stang · 03-09-2004, 11:39 AM

also.. before you run ssh run this command on the machine you are working on.

xhosts + (or it is xhost +)

then connect to SSH... then run

export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

do the above.. and the rest of the suggestions in this post.. then you should be good to go.