# [OmniOS-discuss] Possible to run desktop applications via ssh -X or similar?

Paul B. Henson henson at acm.org
Thu Aug 22 19:16:27 UTC 2013

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    On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 06:59:48AM +0100, Valrhona wrote:

    > Then I log in via ssh -X, and at the command prompt just type
    > 'nautilus'. I get the following error:
    >
    > Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:

    Do you have x forwarding enabled on the server? Is xauth installed on
    the server? What does 'echo $DISPLAY' at a shell prompt return? Run
    "ssh -v -X"  and see what it says, perhaps the forwarding is failing.

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