In my experience, I need to be logged into X on the machine I'm ssh -Xing into, and then you need to (you could also add this to your .bashrc file)
export DISPLAY=:0.0 On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 10:22 AM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> wrote: > On 1/2/19 10:31 PM, Larry Brigman wrote: > > Maybe I'm stating the obvious. Normally you would be running this command > > from a local X client where the shell would have the $DISPLAY value set. > > Like this: > > echo $DISPLAY > > 127.0.0.1:0.0 > > I was sitting at my Slackware laptop in the living room, my first > Slackware install, and decided to see how it responded: > > bash-4.3$ echo $DISPLAY > :0.0 > bash-4.3$ > > When I ssh -X into it from my other Slackware machine, I get a blank > line when I echo $DISPLAY. > > Back on the laptop, I tried connecting to my Ubuntu machine and running > caja: > > dick@ENU-1:~$ caja > Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display: > dick@ENU-1:~$ echo $DISPLAY > > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
