Hey good to know: --disable-factory. I couldn't get gnome-terminal up
after setting LANG=C in ~/.profile. Stderr would get something about a
factory timeout. (Moral of this story: LANG=C.UTF-8!)
On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 10:08 -0500,
kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
> I found the solution:
> ssh -fCXY etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT '/usr/bin/gnome-terminal
> --disable-factory'
>
> Works...
> Go figure... :(
> ET
>
>
> kitepilot@kitepilot.com writes:
>
> > The STUPID terminal is starting in the local box, so now the
> > question is:
> > why is it ignoring the DISPLAY variable?
> > Grrrrrrr...
> > ET
> >
> > kitepilot@kitepilot.com writes:
> >
> > > Hello all:
> > > This is so freaking odd that I'll explain it with a series of
> > > commands:
> > >
> > > There are 2 computers involved, linuxbox (Mint Tara) and wincrap
> > > (Win 7).
> > >
> > > In linuxbox I type:
> > >
> > > etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT:~$
> > > ssh -fCXY localhost xclock
> > >
> > > And I get my banana (xclock starts)
> > >
> > > Then
> > >
> > > etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT:~$
> > > ssh -fCXY localhost gnome-terminal
> > >
> > > and (AMAZINGLY!!!!) I get another terminal window.
> > > So far so good.
> > > Linux is B-O-R-I-N-G...
> > >
> > > Now we move to a cygwin shell in wincrap and I type:
> > >
> > > etroconis@ETROCONIS-DT:~ $
> > > DISPLAY=:0.0 ssh -fCXY etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT xclock
> > >
> > > And (voila), predictably and reliably I again get my banana-
> > > clock,
> > > so FINAL ACT:
> > >
> > > etroconis@ETROCONIS-DT:~ $
> > > DISPLAY=:0.0 ssh -fCXY etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT /usr/bin/gnome-
> > > terminal
> > >
> > > But nope... 8(
> > > My terminal never starts in the WinCrap box!
> > >
> > > So, In summary:
> > > Please look at the 2 lines together (can you tell the
> > > difference?)
> > > DISPLAY=:0.0 ssh -fCXY etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT xclock
> > > DISPLAY=:0.0 ssh -fCXY etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT /usr/bin/gnome-
> > > terminal
> > >
> > > I know that things work locally.
> > > I know that clock works remotely.
> > > I know that gnome-terminal DOES NOT works remotely.
> > > Does anybody have any idea why? :(
> > > Thanks for reading my rant...
> > > ET
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