At 2005-08-11 12:48:30 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Eh? did I mess up something? Why is the export wrong?
If you do this: > host1$ xhost +host2 > host1$ ssh host2 > > host2$ export DISPLAY="host1:0" > host2$ gimp It might work (if the X server on host1 accepts TCP connections, which is now becoming increasingly unlikely), but it wouldn't be using ssh X forwarding, it would use a direct TCP connection to host1:6000. If you want to use ssh to forward X traffic, you should let it set the DISPLAY for you (and it'll set it to something like "localhost:10.0"). Then it forwards data to the server so that it sees the connection as being from (its) localhost, which is why the xhost is unnecessary. -- ams _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
