Re: Persuading ssh -X to work from a RasPiOS system
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:02:07 UTC
> On 22 Mar 2023, at 11:29, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:11:08AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >>> On 22 Mar 2023, at 09:59, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote: >>> After a recent round of upgrades to both FreeBSD-current and RasPiOS64 >>> it developed that running >>> ssh -X [freebsd hostname] >>> gets me logged in, but issuing >>> xterm -sb >>> reports >>> xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: >>> xterm: DISPLAY is not set >> >> 'DISPLAY is not set' is saying that ssh hasn't done the forwarding. >> >> If you run 'xterm' before you login to FreeBSD, does it work? >> > Somewhat to my surprise, xterm isn't recognized as a command > on the RasPiOS end. The default terminal emulator is lxterminal, > but I thought xterm would still be recognized. Evidently not. > >> Perhaps you don't have an X server (eg you could be using Wayland I guess) >> > > The RasPiOS system boots to the command line and the windowing > system is started up using startx. The man page for startx seems > to imply that the Pi is using some flavor of X, but I'm not sure > which one. Xwayland is available, but not installed. OK, seems strange it wouldn't work then. You could try "ssh -vvvvvX user@freebsdhost" and see if there are messages about X11 forwarding. -- Daniel O'Connor "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum