[wplug] Remote X question

Jonathan S Billings billings at negate.org
Mon Aug 18 12:05:42 EDT 2003


On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 11:50, Teodorski, Chris wrote:
> I believe I am running them remotely; I am entering the command at the
> remote machines prompt.  I was under the impression that the -X switch
> on ssh would prevent you from having to set the DISPLAY, is that
> incorrect?

The -X switch just sets up an X tunnel during login, so $DISPLAY should
be set to 'localhost:10.0".  I wasn't clear about that in my previous
message.

There's nothing that prevents you, or one of your login scripts from
changing $DISPLAY to something incorrect.  


> ---Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan S. Billings [mailto:billings at negate.org] 
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 10:31 AM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] Remote X question
> 
> How are you starting these programs?  Are you running them off the 
> remote machine?  Is the $DISPLAY set to the local system:10.0?  If 
> traffic isn't going over the SSH tunnel, you are either: 1.) not 
> running the process remotely or 2.) exporting the remote process over
> X 
> instead of the SSH tunnel.
> 
> 
> On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 10:17 America/New_York, Teodorski, Chris 
> wrote:
> 
> > Please don't beat me silly if this is a stupid question.
> >
> > I am using SSH from a box here at work to connect to a box at home. 
> I 
> > added the -X switch so that I can operate X apps remotely.  So, my 
> > assumption was that all network traffic from those apps (if I were
> to 
> > run IRC or a browser) would be sent back through the tunnel to my 
> > machine at home.  However, that doesn't seem to be the behavior that
> I 
> > am seeing.  Was I mistaken?
> >
> >
> > Chris
> > (aka Can0Beans)
> >
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