[OpenIndiana-discuss] X11 Forwarding.. Can't Open Display

[Jonathan Leafty]

FWIW, I tried this from the Ubuntu VM too and from the OI host (which should
work right... it's a loopback but still).

I can't say I ever X11'd from an Ubuntu VM to OS/OI before, since I
primarily use Windows, but I would imagine it would work or have a different
error message if the cause was different.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:05 AM, David Brodbeck <brodbd at uw.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Jonathan Leafty <
> jleafty+openindianadiscuss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > FYI, I decided to see if maybe Xming was just acting up, enabled
> > OpenSSH/X11
> > forwarding on my Ubuntu box and I can successfully launch programs (like
> > gedit).
> >
>
> One thing I've noticed about Xming is it does not allocate a TTY or create
> a
> login shell when it connects.  This has caused problems for me in the past;
> for example if you have a .profile or a system-wide /etc/profile neither
> will be run for an Xming connection.
>
> --
> David Brodbeck
> System Administrator, Linguistics
> University of Washington
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