When I had X windows on my Redhat machine (KDE) I used Cigwin with this as the process. Start Cygwin $ startx Leave an xterm open I would 'exit' TWM leaving the X server running (don't ask me how this worked) click the desktop and select 'exit' I would then "ssh -X -l 'account' 'machine'" from the open xterm When logged in I'd type 'KDE' and KDE would start. It's all magic, as you know, so it may or may not work. Depends on the fates or luck or some darn quirk of Cygwin. The Redhat machine now has Debian on it without X windows. I want to have X windows on that machine but I'm having some difficulty, apparently I'm mister potato head ;-) I just need to know more about what all goes in to an installation of X windows. Sam. Shawn wrote: >Okay, I'm drawing a blank on X11 and ssh. I'm ssh'ing to a box that has Xforwarding enabled from my desktop (Slack) that has fvwm2 as it's window manager. However, when I try to run an X app I get "can't open display" from the other system that I connected to. > >I did do "xhost +servername" and got the display error. I then tried "xhost +" and still get it. I'm looking at my X options within ssh_config but don't see anything that's standing out for me on what to enable to allow it. Just to say it, I did also try exporting my display back to my local system to no avail. > >I did a search for X11+ssh+local+display and came up with 31,000 hits. I dug thru a few of them, but didn't find anything conclusive except that this works: > >$ ssh -X host.domain.com > >But I can't find the equivalent of this for the local ssh_config file. > >Also, I plan on upgrading my system but I wanted to do some testing on ssh prior to doing so. I tried to set "Compression yes" on a system with Openssh 3.2.3p1 but it comes up with an invalid option. I know I can set it with "ssh -C" but was looking for a default setting. The man page for ssh shows that what I did was supposed to be correct, but didn't look like it was working. > > >Thanks. > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list