> default, ssh forwards X connections over it's connection. So all you
> should have to do is run an X server on the machine you are connecting
> from, and set your DISPLAY properly on the server after you ssh in.
If you set DISPLAY manually, you will most likely end up losing the X
forwarding property. Let ssh do it automagically, don't touch what it
does, for it does things right. :)
> BTW, for those of you that use tcsh as your shell, there is an env var set by tcsh
> called REMOTEHOST, and it is set to the host you cannected from. I have this in my
> .cshrc:
>
> setenv DISPLAY $REMOTEHOST:0.0
Bingo, you've just asked X to send stuff directly to you and broken
the ssh X forwarding.
You want your DISPLAY to be `hostname`:n.0 where n is larger than
any X head on the server, and defaults to 10 or larger on 1.2.27.
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Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland
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