On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks(a)alldigital.com> wrote:
On 03/29/2016 08:15 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
This smells like X isn't being forwarded.
Todor, ssh to the machine and type in "echo $DISPLAY". You should see
something like "localhost:10.0". If you don't then you aren't
forwarding the display and firefox won't work.
On the remote machine (the one you're using ssh to contact), check the
/etc/ssh/sshd_conf file and verify you have
X11Forwarding yes
set in that file. If not, put in the line and do
sudo systemctl restart sshd
Log out and ssh back to it. Try the "echo $DISPLAY" again. If you see
something like "localhost:10.0", then try firefox again and the display
SHOULD show up on your local machine.
If you DON'T see the "localhost:10.0" thing, then log out again and
log in but use "ssh -X remotehostname" (where "remotehostname" is
the
name of the machine you're trying to ssh to) to try normal X
forwarding. Try the "echo $DISPLAY" again. If you still don't get it,
log out and try "ssh -Y remotehostname" and repeat the echo command.
Some combination of that should get the DISPLAY environment variable
set.
Hello Rick and Matthew,
X forwarding is fine, wireshark/vlc/xclock are displayed, just
browsers (firefox/seamonkey/chrome) are not working. I have tried in
the beginning with --no-remote (I knew of the switch), but the result
is the same :
[todor.petkov@fedora-vm ~]$ firefox --no-remote
and it stays like this, no graphic on my display.
I will try from another Linux workstation today.
Regards,