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Re: DISPLAY variable not set in ssh session



On 2008-02-26 19:57:50 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> No. But using ssh -v might give some clues. One extra potential reason:
> the target box does not have (the utility) xauth on it.

or xauth is not in the default path for ssh (but if the target box is
a Debian machine, there should be no problems).

Another suggestion: try "ssh -Y localhost" and look at the $DISPLAY
environment variable (it should be something like localhost:10.0).

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