Display not specified

[lperrott]

Hello all,

I’m having a small bit of trouble. I need to log onto the computer cluster at my school in order to use some licensed software. I connect through Linux timeshare with the ssh command, however when I go to run a program the terminal give a display not specified command and the program runs in the actual terminal instead of opening up its own graphical interface. Any ideas on how to fix this? Please let me know if you need any additional information. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
lperrott

[wolfi323]

@lperrott

Hello all,

I’m having a small bit of trouble. I need to log onto the computer cluster at my school in order to use some licensed software. I connect through Linux timeshare with the ssh command, however when I go to run a program the terminal give a display not specified command and the program runs in the actual terminal instead of opening up its own graphical interface. Any ideas on how to fix this? Please let me know if you need any additional information. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
lperrott

Did you run ssh with the ‘-X’ option to enable X forwarding?

[kalten]

Hi,

I’m not a SSH expert, but how did you connect to your school server using ssh? Have you used the “-X” option with SSH to enable X11 forwarding?

EDIT:

• wolfi323 was faster

[lperrott]

Thanks guys! Worked like a charm. Much appreciated.