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How to connect to existing X session without unlocking physical display?
I usually leave many programs running on my workstation and sometimes I need to use it remotely. So I need to connect to existing X session, while keeping physical display (workstation's monitor) ...
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$XAUTHORITY problem in openvz Ubuntu guest
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 x64 in openvz, but the X11 forwarding doesn't seem to work. I have installed xauth, but $XAUTHORITY is not set, nor is there a ~/.Xauthority file. And I can't open ...
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Intermittent `Error: cannot open display: localhost:10.0` with Vagrant
I've set up a Vagrant VM with X forwarding. I'm connecting to it with the following command (to improve X performance):
ssh -c arcfour,blowfish-cbc -XC vagrant@VM-NAME
This works fine; I log into ...
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How to detect “ghost” X sessions?
The trouble is that, sometimes, the X session stay open after that the user is disconnected (such as when the network link is disconnected)
It occurs in many ways, such as via ltsp or via ...
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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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Configuration to point an X tty to a separate system?
Specifically, I have an Ubuntu 10.04 system with a headless Ubuntu 12.04 virtual machine, and I'm looking for a way to have it set up so pressing Ctrl+alt+F8 will take me into another X client which ...
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SSH to open GUI on target machine?
I know -X -Y options in ssh for X11 forwarding.But these options open the gui apps on my pc.But I want to open a gui application "exactly" on target machine. So please help me with this. I tried this ...
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Xprograms over ssh, nothing happens
I'm new to SSH and trying to setup a connection to run Xapplications through my school.
I made the login perfectly fine but once inside, i export the display to my ip ie:
export DISPLAY=MYIP:0.0
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How do you Xforward windows using ssh?
How do you use Xforwarding through SSH beetween two ubuntu pc's?
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Why does X-forwarding firefox take so long?
I ssh -X from Ubuntu to an Ubuntu Server, on which I've installed X, x11-apps and Firefox. Running xeyes shows the eyes, so I know that the X forwarding works. But when I try firefox, nothing happens: ...
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“can't open display” weirdness over ssh
Some time back, (maybe a year?), my environment was working correctly. But some time in the last year or so I started getting "can't open display" errors.
It's weird because I can ssh into the ...
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Can not connect remotly with X11 and SSH? err: Can't open display, What's wrong?
$ xterm works on the client computer
In the client I have :
$ echo $DISPLAY
:0
in the config file in the server /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
trying to connect to ...
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How to ssh to a running X instance remotely?
I have an X instance running on my server computer, and on occasion I connect to it remotely via TeamViewer. Once in a while TeamViewer crashes and I cannot restart it remotely. Is there a way to ...
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ssh -X “Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0”
I'm trying to open xterm on my remote server (Ubuntu Server 10.04) with ssh:
ssh -X name@machine xterm
but the error returned is:
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0`
I googled and tried ...
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Garbled UI with vnc, chicken-of-the-vnc, gridengine, qmon
Ubuntu 11.04
gridengine version 6.2u5-1ubuntu1
I start a desktop with the vncserver command.
My ~/.vnc/xstartup ends with 'gnome-session'.
I connect to it using chicken-of-the-VNC on my MacOSX ...
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“Cannot open display” when I already have GUI windows open [closed]
I'm connecting to an Ubuntu machine remotely via ssh -X. This worked flawlessly and I could open GUI windows just fine.
However, after some duration of continual connection, I'm suddenly getting ...
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Difference between `ssh -Y` and `ssh -X`
What is the difference between ssh -Y and ssh -X? As far as I have understood it, it has something to do with security, but I did not grasp the difference and when to use which.
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Launch a GNOME session in a Ubuntu machine I'm SSH'd into?
I'm sshing into my friends machine and I'm wondering how would i launch a GNOME session over SSH? I need to open a web browser on his machine to view something which can only be done from his ...
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Use local button styles during forwarded X11 session over SSH
Is it at all possible to have a forwarded X11 session be styled with something other than the default X button styles? It doesn't even appear to use my server's actual styles seeing as both computers ...
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Window decoration of emacs23 window on fluxbox is outside screen
I am starting emacs remotely over an ssh connection.
But on the emacs window I cannot find a way to resize or move it. There is no fluxbox title bar visible, and I guess the title bar is above the ...
