Running X on a virtual dedicated server

[Ted Gould]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 18:37 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> As many of you know, I like my GUI tools.  And I just purchased a
> virtual server from GoDaddy, but when I try to run an X app I get the
> generic error of cannot connect to X server.  If I look at ps -A I see
> xinted running.  If I try to startx I get
> xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.5195 (or some
> randum number)
> xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "X" in PATH

I think you're confused at what you want.  You don't want X running on
that computer, you want the programs to display on your X server running
on your machine.  Try connecting like this:

ssh -X -Y -C myhost.com

That opens up X tunneling, sets the forward file, and does a little
compression for you too.

Some SSH servers aren't set up to support X tunneling by default, you
may need to enable it in /etc/ssh/ssh_config

		--Ted

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