Problems with X11 Forwarding

[Garrett Cooper]

Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 1/15/06, Aaron Dalton <aaron at daltons.ca> wrote:
>   
>> I thought this might be the best place to post the question.  I am
>> running FreeBSD5.4-RELEASE.  For the sake of argument, let's say I am
>> trying to get the port editors/fte running on my Windows box via an SSH
>> tunnel.  I am running WindowsXP, cygwin's X11 server, and PUTTY.  As far
>> as I can tell from all my Googling, this should actually be quite simple:
>>
>> - openssh is setup on FreeBSD with X11Forwarding=yes
>> - I start the cygwin X-server (XWin -ac -multiwindow)
>> - Putty is configured to forward X11 sessions
>> - I connect via Putty
>> - running '$ fte' from the FreeBSD command line should supposedly open
>> everything up now on my Windows box, but it does not.
>>
>>  From what I understand, when I connect now via Putty the env variable
>> DISPLAY should be set.  But it is not (which is the error fte gives me
>> when I try to run it).  If I try to manually set the DISPLAY variable (I
>> tried localhost:0, localhost:0.0, ip:0, ip:0.0) it still doesn't work.
>> editors/fte is fully installed (with X11libs and all that) but I wonder
>> if there is more I need installed on the FreeBSD end to make things work.
>>
>>     
>
> If you have cygwin installed why use putty? Just fire up xterm and use
> ssh -X. You could try this too: http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
>   

ssh -X is deprecated in many cases I noticed, so I suggest using ssh -Y.
-Garrett