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[ILUG] X Windows Query

[ILUG] X Windows Query

Dave McMullin desertpalace at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 21:14:16 IST 2008


>> ssh user at 192.168.1.3
>>
>> (just the regular old ssh command!); then you can start apps on Server
>> via the terminal window, and they'll show up in windows on Client's X
>> display.
>
> This section is not working for me. here is what i receive in the terminal
> when trying this:
>
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> The application '.' lost its connection to the display localhost:10.0;
>  most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
>

This hasn't happened to me before but it sounds like an xauth problem.
Some discussion of it can be found at [1]; this post by "mohnkern"
might be instructive:

<quote>

 Somehow my .Xauthority file on my computer on my home box got its
 ownership changed.

 doing:

 sudo rm $home/.Xauthority*

 and then logging out and back in resolved the issue.

</quote>


Dave

[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-119256.html



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