On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 07:15:16AM -0800, Scott I. Remick wrote: > So I had to restart my home box the other day then realized while away that > I forgot to launch vino-session, so I am unable to VNC to my local desktop. > > This seems to work me into a corner, as while I can still ssh into the > computer, I cannot start vino-session from the remote ssh session because of > DISPLAY issues. It insists on running from the local desktop. > > I've been researching since yesterday and haven't found any suggestions that > work. Some posts mention "xhost +localhost" but when I try that I get: > > X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
That means your ssh(1) session isn't doing X11 forwarding. ssh has he
capability to pose as an X server, usually on localhost:10.0 and
transparently forwards all X session traffic over an encrypted tunnel
back to your desktop display, but only if you enable it.
> I've also tried setting the DISPLAY variable to localhost:0 and
> localhost:0.0 as well as using the --display= command line parameter of
> vino-session to no avail.
Don't do that. First of all, as you've already discovered, it doesn't
work. Secondly, you're telling X windows to display on the screen of
the remote machine, which won't be a whole lot of use to you.
Instead, read about the '-X' and '-Y' options in ssh(1) and the
equivalent 'ForwardX11' directive in ssh_config(5).
Cheers,
Matthew
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