Questions tagged [x11forwarding]
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X11 forwarding through WSL
I would like to connect to a remove linux machine via ssh from my windows machine, and forward the x11 server from that machine to mine to be able to view small interactive windows like those ...
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X11 forwarding through a jump box
I have a machine that is configured to auto connect to a jump/bastion box when there is an internet connection. I configured its ssh config file as follows:
Host tunnel
HostName <jump ...
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SSH forwarding - x server display remote program on local machine
Two debian machines
Debian 10
Kali Linux 2020 rolling
lak:~# sudo ssh -XC spusr@192.168.4.2
works to forward specific programs like firefox, nautilus
connected via ethernet lan
Things noticed
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X11 configuration on Ubuntu 18.04. Worked on Ubuntu 16.04
Here is a script which is run in cron for user1 who has sudo privileges
export DISPLAY=:0
export XAUTHORITY=/home/user2/.Xauthority
scrot -q 30 "/tmp/%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M_screen.jpg" 2&...
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x11 forwarding: Server has no GPU - and no swrast_dri.so
I am trying to set up my server so that I can use Chromium remotely, which I need to put away some of the silly IP restrictions... Therefore, I need to utilize X11 forwarding and - apparently? - need ...
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x11 forwarding not working
I'm having trouble getting x11 forwarding when I ssh into a linux machine from a MAC operating Mojave. When I do ssh -X username@serveraddress, I get the following error appearing after I successfully ...
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X11 forwarding over ssh only working with sudo
Problem
I'm unable to get X11 forwarding over ssh working as a normal user anymore. It worked a few months ago, so something has been inadvertently changed.
What I've tried
Works with sudo:
As far ...
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Cluster SSH on KDE fails: cssh error 'bad pad value "3m'
I'm having issues getting clusterssh running on a RHEL7.3 install using KDE. I don't believe this is a Perl issue, as I have forwarded X from a CENTOS7 box that yields the same error (That box has no ...
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SSH X11 stuck for a long time
I routinely run a bunch of experiments (perl scripts) on my lab machines.
The client machine I'm currently running my experiments on runs Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS.
These perl scripts, among other things, ...
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How do diagnose laggy X11 applications running via ssh forwarding?
I am running an X11 application on a RHEL machine on my Windows system using Xming and X11 forwarding over SSH. The responsiveness seems terrible. A second between keystrokes and mouse clicks, etc. ...
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XMing "can't open display" error
Attempting to run XMing, the remote host is Ubuntu, going through Putty. Have spent hours carefully double-checking all settings, reviewing XMing's troubleshooting guide, etc. Rather than continuing ...
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SSH X11 forwarding is extremely slow over VPN
I'm using an VPN (with OpenVPN) to keep access between my home and work computers, and today I tried to ssh-forward an app which is GUI-only, and I found this to be terribly slow. I've used SSH X11 ...
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How can I set -X (X11Forwarding) in my ~/.ssh/config file for a specific host?
So if I'm VPN'ing in from home, I want all of those connections to have -X specified. I already have the keys copied and an entry in ~/.config with the ip and userid so all I have to do is go: ssh wk ...
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Start remote XFCE session on second TTY via SSH and X forwarding
I don't know very much about ssh and X forwarding (yet) and I am able to run a few graphical apps on the host machine and forward them to my client by using the -X option on ssh. What I really want to ...
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How do I view an X display on a remote host from OSX
I'm running an X server in a under xvfb in an Ubuntu 14.04 Virtualbox VM.
The X display is used to run Firefox and Chrome for some Selenium tests. I want to be able to view the contents of this ...
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How to test X11 Forwarding?
I am trying to enable X11 forwarding so that I can run Firefox from the remote host. The remote host is a Vagrant VM running Ubuntu 12.04. The local host is Mac OS X 10.10. I think I have everything ...
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System missing xorg.conf
I'm having quite a bit of difficulty installing X server on a VM running Debian Wheezy. I basically am just looking to be able to SSH to the box using X11 forwarding.
After installing xserver ...
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Using X11 apps on VPS server, feasible in terms of resources? [closed]
I wanted to run an idea by the experts here. I have a VPS (Debian 7.7, 1GB RAM), which is purely a web server (hosts some important stuff), no desktop installed. But there are some graphical tools I ...
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Unable to install X11 server on RHEL6
I am tring to install X11 server on a RHEL6 server
yum groupinstall "X Window System" "Desktop" "Fonts"
but I am getting the following error:
Error Downloading Packages:
libart_lgpl-2.3.20-5.1....
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How does ssh work when client and host are on the same machine?
I illustrate my question with the help of docker containers but this example is orthogonal to the rest of the problem. In fact any program that allows the use of bridge interfaces and ssh would do.
I ...
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Forwarding X11 with one hop without X-server installed
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I want to run X-applications remotely on a machine C from my client A. The only way to connect to this machine is by using machine B (firewall) as a hop:
A --> B --> C
So far, simple ssh ...
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How to tell if an ssh session is using x forwarding (if it was run with -X or -Y)
For a given ssh session, is there a way to tell if it has x-forwarding enabled? I.e. you don't know if the session was established with ssh username@address or with ssh -X username@address.
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How (not) to setup lightweight WM for occasional server management?
I'm working with our admin team to firm up all the requirements of the dev team before creating some system images.
One of the things we ended up needing is a lightweight GUI setup. Knowing that the ...
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amazon EC2 x11 problems
We are trying to set up a virtual development / research cloud environment for our students. Students need to be able to log-in, launch python IDE, and plot some graphs for their homework.
We are ...
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X11 forwarding over ssh applications very slow to start
I have a server that is extremely slow (takes 3-5 minutes) at starting X11 applications over a forwarded X11 link. I have tried connecting to it with 2-3 different machines with different operating ...
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Centos 6 x2go dependancy issues when trying to run yum update
I have tried to update x2goserver to the latest version on my CentOS server however I am getting a dependency issues now.
From what I can tell it is looking for xorg-x11-fonts-core package. This ...
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X11 Forwarding works on Windows with Xming and Putty, but not with ssh command line
I have a micro Amazon instance the I want to use for testing and everything is going fine until the title. If I set up all the info in PuTTy, open it up and run 'xclock', all runs perfectly and it ...
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Can't Open Display - X11 Forwarding - Cent OS
Trying to access X11 my CentOS 6 x32 small Linode VPS through SSH Putty/Xming (enabled X11 forwarding on options).
My windows machine is not the problem since it works with others CentOS Servers.
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SSH - How to turn on X forwarding on normal connection
I know I can connect to a host and use window apps via running ssh -X <host>.
But what if I'm already connected via normal ssh e.g., ssh <host>.
Is there a way to turn X forwarding on ...
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Will a remote X-Windows session run faster if I install a better video card in the remote server?
I don't know much about X-Windows. Sometimes I run a remote X-windows session to an HP DL380 host from my MacBook Pro on the same LAN. I'm using X11 forwarding with the ssh -X option. The X-Windows ...
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Using X11 over SSH from a Mac
So here's my situation: I work for my school as a tech. One of our servers has a firewall problem and isn't accepting connections from outside the network.
I tried to SSH into one of the servers that ...
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SSH X11 Forwarding XInputExtension missing
When trying to open a GUI-program on a SSH-Session with X11-Forwarding (both client and server have X11Forwarding activated) I get this error:
Xlib: extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":...
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SSH X11 forwarding does not work. Why?
This is a debugging question. When you ask for clarification please make sure it is not already covered below.
I have 4 machines: Z, A, N, and M.
To get to A you have to log into Z first.
To get to ...
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SSH X11 not working
I have a home and work computer, the home computer has a static IP address.
If I ssh from my work computer to my home computer, the ssh connection works but X11 applications are not displayed.
In my ...
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What does "Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated" mean when ssh'ing with -X?
When I use ssh -X on my Mac (running OS X 10.6.7) to connect to my Ubuntu (11.04) box, I get the following warning:
Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding
setup failed: xauth key data not
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Can I spy on an X-session if I am logged in as root?
If I were logged into a remote machine as root with ssh -X, how would I go about viewing a particular X11 session that another logged in user was using? (that includes solutions such as remotely ...
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Problem opening XWindows programs with xming and SSH Secure Shell
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 ...
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Forward server process's X11 GUI dynamically to machine of logged in dev
On one of our linux machines we have a server process running. This process mainly uses logs and config files, but a crucial part of the server program uses a specialized GUI, which uses X11.
We need ...
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Forward already-running X-window-system applications through SSH
I know that it is possible to forward the windows of an X-windows-system application to a client's desktop via SSH when you start the application in a SSH terminal session which has X-forwarding ...
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How to start remote Xorg/gnome via ssh & Xforwarding, then close ssh but without shutting down Xorg/gnome?
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I have a Linux server where I connect to via ssh.
It works fine, and also, X-forwarding works fine (in the local network).
Now I wanted to run a server program under wine. because it's a ...
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Terminal server for Linux
What are the features of graphical terminal servers and technologies available for Linux?
is it open source/free
how well does it scale
management (?)
what's the network usage, susceptibility to ...
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Setting up xpra for client use in OS X
I've been trying to get xpra to run on OS X for the last few days to connect to my Ubuntu server. Note that there's a GUI for it called shifter, but that (at least on OS X) is still far too buggy.
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Remote offscreen rendering
My research lab recently added a server that has a beefy NVIDIA graphics card, which we would like to use to do scientific computations. Since it isn't a workstation, we'll have to run our jobs ...
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Trying to get X11 over SSH working: Connection refused by server
Using Cygwin/X11
Launch command in local Xterm for SSH:
xterm -e ssh -Y -v -l MyUser myserver.mydomain.com &
After logging in, I've run
setenv DISPLAY myclient.mydomain.com:0.0
When I try to ...
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ssh -X How to return a remote forwarded X application to localhost
I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.4
I'm opening an ssh session to a remote system running Ubuntu 10.0.4 Desktop
I open a remote VPN connection to a remote network
Then:
ssh -X user@host
screen -S openvas
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Recording remote xserver output without x-forwarding
Any ideas for essentially creating a loop-back display on a remote server, so I run a X application, and instead of forwarding that display to a local client, the output is essentially 'screen-grabbed'...
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X11 from ssh on Mac OSX to Linux server doesn't work --- Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display
I installed a program wireshark on my remote linux box and I'm trying to run it with X11 from my mac computer using SSH.
Here's my terminal...
macosx$ echo $DISPLAY
/tmp/launch-f4w6k6/:0
macosx$ ssh ...
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X11Forwarding on MacOSX (Leopard/Snow Leopard)
I have some remote boxes, which are a bunch of Mac Mini's. I access them now through SSH, and it fits my needs to do the maintenance. In the past, I used X11Forwarding with Linux boxes, when I was ...
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How to use WeirdX applet instead of X11 for remote connections in Mac OS X?
When I am away, I've got an Apple PowerBook set up to use X11 forwarding with SSH to connect to a remote iMac client in my room for server administration.
Whenever I start X client programs on the ...
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Detach X11 app and reattach on another?
Given a setup of a headless Linux box running on a network, but having Xorg installed, and having various other machines on the network capable of using SSH with X-forwarding to connect to that box, ...
