now this is strange. on 192.168.0.3 I can run gimp (which is not on .3) from 192.168.0.4 however gedit will not run on .3 . Cool after a bit of research I learned it is a gedit bug! and to successfully rungedit I need to start it with sudo. Not an ideal situation. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > I messed up.... I forgot the 'X' option but now the error I get is > > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. > > Sorry about the mistake. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> Now I did look into the man page and the 'X' option looked promising. the >> first thing I tried was to open the file from 192.168.0.3 which was a shell >> on 192.168.0.4 (I was on .4 sshing to .3 which was sshing to .4). Anyways >> the response was: >> >> $ X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. >> >> But when I tried to open a text file from 192.168.0.3 with gedit (the >> file resides on 192.168.0.4) the complaint it gave was: >> >> cannot open display >> >> So I figured the problem might be that the program wasn't installed. >> After instaling gedit it gave the same error. So what am I doing wrong? >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > >