macossshx11
I am logging into a remote Fedora 12 machine via SSH. I have enabled X11 forwarding by passing -X parameter to ssh. I also tried trusted forwarding with -Y. Both of them fail with (gedit:3711): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display, when I try opening a file with gedit on the remote machine.
What am I missing?
I'm not sure if this will work, but, it's worth a shot...
What is you create an Automator script to take a screen capture, and then run that using the terminal?
Similar to what is described in this TUAW article, however, without the part that mails the screen capture to you.
Save the Automator script as an application, SSH in, and run open /path/to/the/automator.app
Bash has special provisions in its source code to source ~/.bashrc when it's invoked by rshd or sshd. It's a compilation option, which given your experience seems not to be turned on under OSX.
If you're logging in with a key, you can (ab)use the command= option in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.
A key with a command option is good only for running the specified command; but the command in the authorized_keys file runs with the environment variable SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND set to the command the user specified (empty for interactive sessions). So you can use something like this in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (of course, it won't apply if you don't use this key to authenticate):
command=". ~/.profile;
if [ -n \"$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND\" ]; then
eval \"$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND\";
else exec \"$SHELL\"; fi" ssh-rsa …
Note that I put line breaks above for legibility, but this actually needs to be all on one line.
How can I set environment variables for a remote rsync process? may have other helpful suggestions.
Best Answer
Try running a local X11 application first. If that doesn't work, reinstall Xquartz and log out and back in again.