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X11 forwarding from Amazon EC2 AMI

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Mar 15, 202633020 views
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Problem

Hence the display is not forwarded. a command like for instance does not show the X11 window on the local desktop. Please advise.

Error Output

local$> echo $DISPLAY
   :0.0
   local$> ssh -X -i PEMFILE ec2-user@AMAZONEC2_AMI
   [ec2-user@REMOTE_AMI ~]$ echo $DISPLAY

   [ec2-user@REMOTE_AMI …

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Fix for: X11 forwarding from Amazon EC2 AMI

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I did this: and I finally got a display variable and it all started to work!

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