SteveS wrote: [snip] > In Cywin I then do > > ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > and get a command prompt from the Ubuntu server. Running a graphical app (eg > gedit) returns > > cannot open display: (null) > > There are suggestions online to manually set the display, but as I > understand that's incorrect if you are doing X forwarding.
The suggestion meant to set DISPLAY on the client side (Cygwin), you are correct about not changing it on the server side. Just do: export DISPLAY=localhost:0:0 ssh -Y ... -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
