12 Dec
2005
12 Dec
'05
4:57 p.m.
On Sunday 11 December 2005 23:19, [email protected] wrote:
1. on the local host, declare the remote host to be trusted by the local X11 server: "xhost +bdi_ip_address/bdi_hostname" 2. ssh to the remote host 3. on the remote host, set the DISPLAY environment variable to point to the local host's X11 server.
Steps 1 and 3 are totally unnecessary when X11 forwarding via ssh is working.
Distilled the info down to it's minimum and confirmed it works on a fresh BDI-4 install. I did notice that the setting of DISPLAY was not needed as the -X flag should automatically set the variable. Please feel free to pad out http://ourproject.org/moin/Remote_X_sessions if you think it is a little spartan or correct any mistakes. Regards, Paul.