On 1/2/19 10:17 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 1/2/19 10:04 AM, David wrote:
On 1/2/19 10:01 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
I can run ssh -X on my Slackware machine and connect to my Ubuntu 18
machine. But I can't run caja on that connection. I get this error
message:
dick@ENU-1$ caja
Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:
dick@ENU-1$
Try looking at the -Y flag to see if that helps your situation. I've
gotten lazy (admittedly) and just run -XY on my connections when I
need them these days.
Going from the Ubuntu machine to the Slackware machine, ssh -Y performs
the same as ssh -X. In other words nothing happens and it is closed by
<ctrl>C.
Going from the Slackware machine to the Ubuntu machine, ssh -Y connects.
But when I run caja, it opens on the Ubuntu machine's display.
So ssh -Y doesn't help in my situation. Thanks for letting me know that
-Y exists, though.
Let's start with the basics then.
When you connect each way, what is the response from the command:
echo $DISPLAY
If you get back a blank line, something is preventing the variable from
being set. If you get a line similar to "host:10.0" then I would suspect
that caja is doing something and not using that environment variable.
Does xterm or something similar behave as anticipated?
dafr
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