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gedit “cannot open display” , on remote computer , using ssh - Ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I run a graphical application on a remote server when logged in through ssh? I am getting the following error message when using ssh to log into a remote ...
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How do I run a graphical application on a remote server when logged in through ssh?

I am trying to run gedit from an SSH terminal on Windows, connected to an Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu 12.04 Server and I am getting this error: Cannot open display: How do I fix it?
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using gedit through ssh connection - should I have gedit installed on the server?

I wanted to try out using graphical tools over ssh. Just to learn a new thing :) so my understanding is this, I connect like this: ssh -port -x user@server But I'm running ubuntu server so it has no ...