From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tramp X forwarding howto Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:37:56 +0200 Message-ID: <8738pkg9dn.fsf@gmx.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378291105 23106 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2013 10:38:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 10:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Paul K Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 04 12:38:27 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VHATi-0006D1-D1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:38:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51772 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHATi-00060O-1n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 06:38:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45275) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHATR-0005zb-D7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 06:38:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHATJ-0003kD-Eq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 06:38:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:58008) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHATJ-0003k0-56 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 06:38:01 -0400 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([79.230.78.30]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003) with ESMTPS (Nemesis) id 0M3j17-1W7tW22uav-00rF0d for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:38:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Paul K.'s message of "Wed, 4 Sep 2013 10:59:07 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:C4J3CKUSP4/yiVk0CyPevxARGEHr279RXmrJlNIt4C4+Lr0puOO thD9cOLXFnk/l/RMp9F83cQEWv1xGuY3HXXKXvacLog/Zu/bE9RTOAnoSsi5i6+6VrR1P0N NjIa0s3IZNJSU3xGnEtB6Hv8GztBNhLLo5ta97k7CdIER/L85urB6NKfljNYLWouO0W37aX v5KFHFhd907SeUQUs9MIw== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.21 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93239 Archived-At: Paul K writes: > Hallo people. Hi Paul, > I visit remote directory of my linux box. > I want to run some X application for some remote file, but I get some error > message: > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > > My *Messages* buffer also tells: > > Tramp: Sending command `exec ssh -q -o > ControlPath=/tmp/tramp.29890nH.%r@%h:%p > -o ControlMaster=yes -e none RHEL6-64' > > `RHEL6-64' is the name of my remote linux box. > > I do not see `-Y' argument in the ssh command. Is this the reason? > > how can I instruct tramp to use this argument ? Which Tramp version are you running? Apply "C-h v tramp-version". > best regards, Best regards, Michael.