Re: X forwarding work, x program output goes to /dev/null?

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

On 2015-02-25 16:54, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2015-02-25 14:47, Torbjörn Granlund wrote:
> > This is a strange problem.  I routinely use
> >
> >    ssh -X somemachine
> >
> > and then e.g., do
> >
> >     vncviewer [blahblah]
> >
> > or some other X command.
>
> You might want to use -Y instead of -X...
> Not sure if that is the problem here, though.
>
> Another thing to check is if the ssh server allows X forwarding. Check
> /etc/sshd.conf

That should probably be /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Check for X11Forwarding in 
there.

	Johnny