how to use X window server/client mode?

[Zhang Weiwu]

Oh how nice! I start with ssh -X and everything goes okay. Thank you.

Dan Nelson wrote:

>In the last episode (Feb 08), Zhang Weiwu said:
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>>Hello. I know this looks like a dump question ... I wish I can find a easy 
>>tutorial, but a quick google search didn't give me one. Perhaps you can 
>>tell me where to find a good tutorial.
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>>Now I have freebsd 5.2 & gnome 2 running on my notebook, X is started by 
>>gdm. My friend's computer run RedHat linux 9. I login to gnome, ssh login 
>>to my friends computer in a xterm, set $DISPLAY to be "mynotebook:0.0". 
>>Then I type "gedit", I'm expecting gedit to come out on my desktop, but I 
>>got "cannot open display" message.
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>Try with xterm, which generates much better error messages.  Possible
>causes:  DISPLAY variable not exported, nothing listing on
>mynotebook:0.0, "host +" or "xhost +otherserver" not run on mynotebook.
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>If you add the -X flag to ssh, ssh will automatically set $DISPLAY on
>the other end and tunnel the display back to the local server.
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