Michael Tansella <michael-tanse...@gmx.de> writes: > > I want to start midori in the freerunner and forward the GUI tt my Linux Host > > (Kubuntu) > > I tried it the following way, but it starts on the freerunner instead of the > host, any idea?: > > > simarill...@simarillion-laptop:~$ ssh -l root -X -v 192.168.5.202 [...] > r...@om-gta02 ~ $midori
My guess is that /etc/profile on the FreeRunner is overriding the $DISPLAY environment-variable that sshd sets up, or something along those lines. You didn't mention which distribution you're using (OM2008.x? OM2009? SHR?), so I can't be sure, but...: In SHR (which is what I run), this is what happens: ssh request X11 forwarding, sshd sets up forwarding and sets $DISPLAY to "localhost:10" (for the first connection--other simultaneous connections get higher numbers), my shell starts and sources /etc/profile, /etc/profile contains a line that does "export DISPLAY=localhost:0". It wasn't always like this; I imagine that this was added to /etc/profile as a bugfix because people didn't like having to do "export DISPLAY=:0" to launch apps (and have them display locally on the FreeRunner) from SSH logins. Perhaps a better option would be to change /etc/profile so that it instead does: if [ "$DISPLAY" = "" ] then export DISPLAY=localhost:0 fi ... or something equivalent. Something like this would also work: logger -t login "Login with DISPLAY on ${DISPLAY:=localhost:0}" That posts a note about the login, and which DISPLAY value it used, to syslog. The ":=" means `if the variable already has a value, use that value; otherwise assign the following value to it'. -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr)))). _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community