Running X on a virtual dedicated server

[Bryan O'Neal]

Ahhh...  Echo $DISPLAY returns nothing! 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Ted
Gould
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:36 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: RE: Running X on a virtual dedicated server

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 21:07 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> True, this is what I want, however I edited /etc/ssh/ssh_config and 
> uncommented and changed the lines ForwardX11 yes and ForwardX11Trusted

> yes.  I pondered why PasswordAuthentication yes was commented but 
> ignored this saved the file and restarted sshd.  Logged out and logged

> back in.  I also wounded why I could restart sshd without being logged

> out, but again ignored this.  However when I try to launch konqueror I

> get "cannot connect to X server"  That is when I started trying to 
> start X
> 
> I am connecting using ssh -X user at ip

Try this command:

echo $DISPLAY

This will tell you what display the X programs are connecting to.  This
should be an SSH tunnel, something like:

:10.0

A good program to test if everything is working is "xlogo", very simple
but connects over the X11 protocol.

Also, I'd stress that "xhost +" is ONLY for debugging.  SSH should set
up the permissions so that this isn't necessary, it's a significant
security issue to leave that open regularly.

		--Ted