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Re: ssh -x
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) schrieb:
> Holger Krull wrote:
>> Your guess is right. You have to start a local X11 server (startx). And
>> set DISPLAY before you start ssh.
>
> Setting DISPLAY is not necessary with 'ssh -X' or 'ssh -Y'. More than
> that,
> setting DISPLAY will likely cause the X forwarding to not work as expected.
> For more info, read the "X11 FORWARDING" section of the 'ssh' man page.
>
I was writing about the DISPLAY for the ssh process.
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