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SSH: launch GUI programs on remote screen, not X display

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The problem Most people want to connect to a server over ssh with the "-X" option in order to run GUI programs on the remote host using the display of the client. I would like to run GUI programs on the physical monitor attached to the server. Is this possible ? Let me be more specific: My situatio…

Error Output

[xapple@laptop ~]$ ssh workstation
Last login: Mon Sep 26 20:03:35 2011 from laptop
[xapple@workstation ~]$ export DISPLAY=:0
[xapple@workstation ~]$…

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Fix for: SSH: launch GUI programs on remote screen, not X display

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any xlib-application must connect to a xserver. you have to tell the app the connection to the server by either: setting the environment variable DISPLAY using a command line flag such as the first xserver usually can be reached by the connection st…

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