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cant open an xterm onto a remote Kubuntu box

Asked by jimbo320

Hi, i have two Edgy installs of Kubuntu 6.10 with the AMD64 distro.
Ive set up ssh on both boxes, it works fine and i can Konsole them.
Id like to run applications one box ie xwindows and display them on the client xserver. Can i do this with ubuntu?
I tried
export DISPLAY =192.168.0.4:0
and i get
jamesc@asus64:~$ export DISPLAY 192.168.0.4:0
-bash: export: `192.168.0.4:0': not a valid identifier
xterm &
or

jamesc@epox64:/usr/share$ xhost 192.168.0.4
192.168.0.4 being added to access control list
jamesc@epox64:/usr/share$ xeyes

jamesc@epox64:/usr/share$ xeyes -display 192.168.0.4:0

jamesc@epox64:/usr/share$ xeyes -display 192.168.0.4:0 &
[1] 9146
jamesc@epox64:/usr/share$ Error: Can't open display: 192.168.0.4:0

Can you help?

I cant find a wiki on this topic.

Thanks.

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Best Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

From host1, can you do "ssh -X host2" (assuming /etc/ssh/sshd_config on host2 has "X11Forwarding yes") and then run your x app on host2 in that ssh session? No manipulation of DISPLAY variable required.

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jimbo320 (caspertype) said : 		#2

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