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I've installed SSH Secure Shell and xming on my laptop running Windows 7 (64-bit). I'm having trouble starting X Windows applications from the SSH console. I've been able to do it in the past. I've pretty much determined that it's not a server issue because I've tried it on two different servers (both servers are running RHEL 5).

Running "echo $DISPLAY" on either server gave me "localhost:10.0".

My XLaunch configuration settings are: Multiple Windows, 10 (display number), and Start no client. Once xming has launched, I'll try to execute something like "firefox" and I get this back:

The application 'firefox' lost its connection to the display localhost:10.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application.

I've already checked to make sure that the X server is running and it is:

root 12579 2689 0 Feb14 tty7 00:04:23 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7

Additionally, X11 Tunneling has been enabled in SSH as well as SSH 2 connections.

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Check if ssh server is configured to allow X11Forwarding and that the ssh client has created the tunnel. The X server running on remote machine (I mean /usr/bin/Xorg) is not used when you need to display the X application on your desktop - you can even stop it.

What ssh client are you using? Can you add to your question the detailed log of the SSH client?

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  • X11 Forwarding is set to yes in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file on the server. The client is SSH Secure Shell. I don't really have any other output from the SSH client other than the error message I mentioned.
    – Brian
    Apr 12, 2011 at 19:08
  • Which company made that software? Can you try also with PuTTY? Do you see the sshd listening on Apr 12, 2011 at 19:17
  • Can you post the output of sudo netstat -tlnp|grep :601[0-9] on the remote host? Apr 12, 2011 at 19:18
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    Well, I got it working...finally. The only difference was that I didn't specify a display number for xming and just went with the default of 0. Not really sure why that worked, but it does.
    – Brian
    Apr 12, 2011 at 19:19
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The solution from the comments

Well, I got it working...finally. The only difference was that I didn't specify a display number for xming and just went with the default of 0. Not really sure why that worked, but it does.

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