Connecting to X Server on a FreeBSD Box

[Loren M. Lang]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:40:15PM +0100, Chris Hodgins wrote:
> On 4/17/05, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil.h.y at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I start an X server on my FreeBSD box. I want to run some remote X
> > applications from my fedora core 2.
> > So, I have ssh to the fedora box and typed gedit.
> > But it says :
> >    (gedit:12438): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> > 
> > After I had export  DISPLAY=freebsdboxip:0.0
> > it says again:
> >    (gedit:12438): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> > 
> > But I can run freebsd application from my fedora core 2.
> > What is the problem?
> 
> If you are using ssh anyway, you can tell ssh to do X11 forwarding. 
> Read the man page first as there is some slight security risks
> involved depending on the way your machine is used.  Try this:
> 
> ---------------
> $ ssh -X username at hostname

With versions of openssh newer than 3.8, you probably want -Y instead of
-X.

> Password: <enter password>
> hostname$ xterm
> -------------------
> 
> Chris
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