How can I specify a display?

Question

When I run some programs over SSH, such as firefox &, I get an error

Error: no display specified 

I would like to open ma

Answer 1

login to your server via

ssh -X root@yourIP

edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config file, and add this line to it.

X11UseLocalhost no

Restart sshd. for CentOS (check your distribution)

/sbin/service sshd restart

check your DISPLAY

echo $DISPLAY

you should see this

yourIP:10.0

Enjoy

firefox

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