Re: LUG: Putty X11 problems - Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:34:43 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: Putty X11 problems

From : Richard Carter <rwcarter@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:34:43 -0500

Perhaps doing it command line style (ssh -X user@machine) and seeing
if it works that way would narrow it down? Then you'd know if it is
probably a Putty problem or something else. I've never used Putty on
Linux...

Ricket

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Daniel Underwood
<daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> Logging into my machine via SSH using Putty. �I have enabled forwarding
> X11 in Putty and in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. �I get errors, however, when I
> try to run any graphical applications. �For example, gnome-terminal and
> gedit both complain that they're unable to open display.
>
> What could I be missing here?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
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> Graduate Student - Operations Research
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