On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:00:02PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 13:44, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > I do not know of any applications which talk to itself via > > hostname. > > anthony@Maxwell:anthony$ ssh -X bohr > anthony@bohr's password: > ... > echanthony@bohr:anthony$ echo $DISPLAY > bohr:10.0 Evidently you have X11UseLocalhost explicitly set to no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config ... -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]