Hello,
I wanted to test how I could remotly connect to a xserver and get an
x application on my local computer. I believe the steps are as follows
:
//-----------Start of commands --------------
$ ssh -l <username> <remote machine name.domainname>
password: ******
$ "Now I am in a prompt in the remote machine".
$ gedit & //should display gedit on my local monitor from the remote
m/c right?
//----------End of commands -------------------
Is there any thing wrong in the above code?? If it is right, I thought
why not try it on the same machine ? So I did some thing like this...
1) I logged in as root in tty1 and started xinit.
# xinit
2) I opened tty2 <Ctrl+Alt+F2> and logged in as another user say "user1"
$_
3) Now as user1, I started an ssh as follows:
$ ssh -l user1 localhost.localdomain
password : ******
$_
Then I was put into the prompt. Till this fine.
4) Then I tried starting gedit as follows :
$gedit &
5) Now I get the error as follows :
(gedit:890): GTK-WARNING **: Cannot open display.
Could somebody explain where I could have gone wrong? Do I have to
give the port number or something while executing the ssh command ?
thanks in advance
ravi
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