Re: Persuading ssh -X to work from a RasPiOS system

"Daniel O'Connor" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]> 

> On 22 Mar 2023, at 09:59, bob prohaska <[email protected]> wrote:
> After a recent round of upgrades to both FreeBSD-current and RasPiOS64
> it developed that running 
> ssh -X  [freebsd hostname] 
> gets me logged in, but issuing
> xterm -sb
> reports
> xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: 
> xterm: DISPLAY is not set

'DISPLAY is not set' is saying that ssh hasn't done the forwarding.

If you run 'xterm' before you login to FreeBSD, does it work?

Perhaps you don't have an X server (eg you could be using Wayland I guess)

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Daniel O'Connor
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