On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 15:47:14 +0930, Christian Gelinek wrote: > 1. My workstation "gar" is running Debian 12 with XFCE.
> 3. I recently added a PC "octopus" running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Server, without > desktop environment. > 5. I'd like to `ssh -Y localadmin@octopus` from "gar" and then start a > podman container with `xeyes` in it and be able to see it on my screen on > "gar". > I have checked that xauth is installed on octopus and have run out of ideas > what to try next, any ideas? If octopus doesn't have a desktop environment, does it at least have the basic X11 client programs and libraries? You verified that xauth is present. How about xinit, xeyes, xterm? I would skip the "podman" (whatever that is) layer initially. Just try "ssh -Y myuser@octopus" and then "xterm" or "xeyes" at the interactive shell. If that doesn't work, check the ssh server configs (usually in /etc/ssh/sshd_config) on octopus and make sure X11Forwarding is enabled. Once you get basic X11Forwarding working, then you can try to add this podman thing.
