[X-Unix] Tiger X11.app and xforwarding in ssh

[Eugene]

On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 09:50:45AM CDT, John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu> wrote:
: 
: Sometime in May Stroller assaulted the keyboard and produced:
: 
: | Followed your instructions here & ssh'd into a Linux box in 
: | Terminal.app.
: | 
: | Last login: Sat May 14 04:36:00 on ttyp2
: | Welcome to Darwin!
: | 901 ~ $ ssh 192.168.1.104 -X
: | Linux alsoavailablein 2.6.10-5-386 #1 Tue Apr 5 12:12:40 UTC 2005 i686 
: | GNU/Linux
: | No mail.
: | Last login: Sat May 14 04:36:09 2005 from funf.stroller.uk.eu.org
: | stroller at alsoavailablein:~$ sudo 
: | ./rt2500-cvs-20050510/Utilitys/RaConfig2500
: | RaConfig2500: cannot connect to X server
: | stroller at alsoavailablein:~$
: | 
: | It works perfectly from Xterm on my Mac.
: | 
: | *confusled*
: 
: Check the DISPLAY environment variable for xterm and Terminal.app. For me
: the default for xterm is ':0.0' while this environment variable is not set
: by default in Terminal.app. So, when I ssh to a computer from xterm,
: everything forwards appropriately. However, things only forward properly
: for me in terminal.app if I manally set the DISPLAY to ':0.0'. I just
: edited my ~/.bash_profile to make sure this variable is set whenever I
: launch termina.app.

I do something similar in ~/.bash_profile, but I make sure that X11.app
is running before I set $DISPLAY.



-- 
Eugene
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/