SSH, window on remote screen (not X11 forwarding)

[wirylattice]

Hi,

I would like to be able to ssh (or log on in any fashion) to a machine, start an application and have the window appear on a screen connected to the machine i logged on to. There are plenty of tutorials of how to do X11 forwarding to get the windows on the local screen, but i want the opposite of that. I have tried these options:

ssh -X (-Y) hostname
export DISPLAY='hostname:0.0'

ssh hostname
export DISPLAY='hostname:0.0'

but I always get the error: "Can't open display" And I can't see anything in the man pages that would help me.

Any suggestions?

[reed9]

Hello. What works for me is to use

DISPLAY=:0 program_name

Where program_name is the name of the application you are opening on the server.

Or you can do

export DISPLAY=:0

To make that the default.

[wirylattice]

Thank you very much reed9, that works beautifully.

[alf55]

Hi,

I would like to be able to ssh (or log on in any fashion) to a machine, start an application and have the window appear on a screen connected to the machine i logged on to. There are plenty of tutorials of how to do X11 forwarding to get the windows on the local screen, but i want the opposite of that. I have tried these options:

ssh -X (-Y) hostname
export DISPLAY='hostname:0.0'

ssh hostname
export DISPLAY='hostname:0.0'

but I always get the error: "Can't open display" And I can't see anything in the man pages that would help me.

Any suggestions?

ssh -XY username@hostname

The environment variable "DISPLAY" should be set correctly, do not change it.
run a program such as:

firefox

[wirylattice]

Hi Alf,

Thanks for your reply, but did you read my post? I don't want the window to pop up on a screen connected to the computer I am ssh-ing from, but on the machine I am logging on to.

[alf55]

But that makes it very hard to interact with.