Help with Leopard and X11

[Foobar_CfA]

Hi guys,

I installed leopard last week and X11 and I have been fighting.
I often use X11 for Xforwarding from my workstation at work onto my mac.

I have a macbook.
I read the suggestions in the sticky above:

Quote: 1) Open Terminal.app 2) run "echo $DISPLAY" -- verify the result is of the form "/tmp/ launchd-xxxxx/:0" 3) run "ssh -Y user@host" 4) after you log in, X11.app should start on your Mac 5) run "echo $DISPLAY" (on the remote host) -- verify result is of the form "localhost:10" 6) run xterm & (on the remote host) -- xterm should appear on your Mac. Note that some people have seen problems with step 4, where X11.app can hang while launching -- I don't yet know why this is the case.""

My problem is that when I get to step 2, the DISPLAY env variable is not set!!!! How do I fix this? Everything I have read is that we shouldn't mess with the DISPLAY vairable so the launchd can set it, but it's not getting set... Help?

I just want to be able to ssh to my work account and open the windows I need on my mac. Other than this, I LOVE leopard!
Thanks

[Foobar_CfA]

Okay! I had followed the directions to get Tiger back on (which was a mess) and I mananged to remove the org.x.X11.plist file. This is now back in place and this solved my first issue. I have the DISPLAY environment variable set again. Whew!

I can now launch xterms from my Solaris machine onto my mac. BUT... I can't launch other forms..

For example:
Solaris> xemacs &
Solaris> [1] exit
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.

I have tried to use xauth to set up the authentication, but this is failing as well.

Again, I followed the steps from above, but I had to manually start up the X11.app (probably one more step I need to fix...)

Thoughts? I will keep banging away at this, but any thoughts are helpful!
(and yes, I did the ssh -Y....)

[sao]

Quote: Originally Posted by Foobar_CfA I installed leopard last week and X11 and I have been fighting. I often use X11 for Xforwarding from my workstation at work onto my mac. I have a macbook. I read the suggestions in the sticky above: My problem is that when I get to step 2, the DISPLAY env variable is not set!!!! How do I fix this? Everything I have read is that we shouldn't mess with the DISPLAY vairable so the launchd can set it, but it's not getting set... Help?

On the address.com machine, enable X11forwarding. Check /etc/sshd_config, set "X11Forwarding yes", and then restart ssh (turn remote login off and then on in System Preferences->Sharing)

(I suggest you install the latest Xquartz binaries from the Wiki, X11 is working much better now)

[bcantarel]

I am logging into a MacPro with Leopard, trying to get X-forwarding to work, so that I can use emacs from my Macbook. The Macbook is able to log into other machines and have the X windows working. Also the MacPro can log into another machine and it works, but when the remote log in to the Macbook through ssh, the X-window (Emacs) opens into a new window on the MacPro, not the Macbook.

I have already double checked the ssh_config and sshd_config files. And using ssh trying the -X and -Y options and neither is working.

Any suggestions??