Volatile Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 I'm the middle class of linux. I've messed around with it enough to get hardware working eventually screw it up.... I am using SSH to connect to my computer at home from work. I am trying to find out the many things that I can do with linux over the RDP setup I had with W2k3s. I am trying to run specific apps with X11 support. I have X11 forwarding enabled in putty on my end, and I have edited both sshd_config and ssh_config for X11 forwarding. I am stumped now because I still get the message below when trying to run applications via ssh. I also read something about permissions on a .Xauthority file... but wanted to see if someone had previous experience with this before messing with permissions. user@host:~$ firefox The application 'firefox-bin' lost its connection to the display localhost:10.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. user@host:~$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroday Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Never used X forwarding myself, but I found this thread on the Ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1...#%20post1361790 A guide from the Putty author: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/h...ng-x-forwarding You need a X display server installed on Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volatile Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Thanks. That did it. I installed Cygwin/X (cause its free) and executed XWin.exe which created an X server session. Then in my SSH I just type the application I want to run and Walla! good lookin out Zer0day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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