How to connect to remote X-Server (logged in via ssh)
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When I'm logged on to another host (e.g via ssh), how do I connect to the XServer of that machine (same user is logged in and is running a desktop (gnome))? You may ask way I wish to do that: There are commands that don't open an X-Window, e.g. xinput, xhost, etc.. and there are situations where yo…
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Fix for: How to connect to remote X-Server (logged in via ssh)
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I found the problem. Setting DISPLAY manually to localhost:0 is not working, because the XServer does not listen to TCP connections (default Ubuntu 10.04 configuration). However, setting does the trick.
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