X11 Forwarding

[wamred]

Hello,

I wanted to find out if anyone here knew anything about X11 Forwarding. I have been trying to get it working now for about a week and every time it gives me the same error (picture attached).

 

If anyone knows anything thanks in advance for any help.

 

Thanks,

wamred

[WereCatf]

5 minutes ago, wamred said:

I wanted to find out if anyone here knew anything about X11 Forwarding. I have been trying to get it working now for about a week and every time it gives me the same error (picture attached).

 

If anyone knows anything thanks in advance for any help.

Your pictures don't tell us what command you're using to connect to the server; you need to tell the client that you want to use X11-forwarding. Your pictures only show that you've enabled the option on the server to allow clients to request X11-forwarding; it doesn't mean that all clients will automatically use it.

[tikker]

As said above.

 

Use "ssh -X <host>" to log in with X11 forwarding, or configure an alias in /etc/ssh/config to make it permanent.

 

[Edit] only use /etch/ssh/config if you want to do it system wide, otherwise set it in ~/.ssh/config to make it specific to your user.

[WereCatf]

3 minutes ago, tikker said:

/etc/ssh/config

I'd rather recommend ~/.ssh/config for user's own settings, instead of system-wide.

[tikker]

46 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

I'd rather recommend ~/.ssh/config for user's own settings, instead of system-wide.

Oh yeah I agree, oops. you're absolutely correct. Autopilot typed /etc.

[wamred]

Thanks for everything. I was using ssh -Y 

also just for clarity I am renting this from Linode and I use the standard root account. (Yeah I know I really need to make a user account)