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I'm trying to run Midori on my Raspberry Pi over SSH and I would like it to appear on the screen of my PC. (The PC runs Xubuntu.) I tried to follow instructions like this, but I still can't see the browser appearing on my screen.

  • I do use ssh -X
  • X11Forwarding yes is set on the Raspberry
  • xauth is installed on the Raspberry
  • I even tried to set X11UseLocalhost no on the device

And then if I run DISPLAY=:0 midori I get debug messages like

(midori:11871): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-menu-bar-popup-delay after class was initialised

(midori:11871): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-can-change-accels after class was initialised

(midori:11871): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-menu-popup-delay after class was initialised

(midori:11871): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-menu-popdown-delay after class was initialised

(midori:11871): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-label-select-on-focus after class was initialised

(midori:11871): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-menu-images after class was initialised

(midori:11871): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-button-images after class was initialised

(midori:11871): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-scrolled-window-placement after class was initialised

(midori:11871): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-entry-select-on-focus after class was initialised

(midori:11871): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-entry-password-hint-timeout after class was initialised

Which I guess is OK, but then nothing else happens.

What did I do wrong?

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You have to use Upper-case X not a lower case x

ssh -X

to enable X11 tunneling over SSH.

Also on host you are connecting from do:

export DISPLAY=<ip of your host from where you ssh from>:0

xhost +

to allow incoming X11 connection from any host

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  • Thanks, I didn't know about the xhost thing. (The -x was just a typo here, I used -X in the terminal.) However I'm not any closer, I still don't see the GUI on the PC.
    – ytg
    Dec 15, 2014 at 19:57
  • @ytg I amended my answer. make sure to export the display as well. SSH -X will do it for you also but I added JIC.
    – Chetan Bhargava
    Dec 15, 2014 at 20:06
  • apparently something needs to listen on the port 6000. what should that be?
    – ytg
    Dec 15, 2014 at 20:37
  • meanwhile I got aware of question like this askubuntu.com/questions/34657/… but I don't seem to have gdm on my PC
    – ytg
    Dec 15, 2014 at 20:43
  • @ytg Here are my results. After I hit enter after lxterminal command, I get a lxterminal. Laptop is Linux laptop (xserver already running). Host berry is raspberry pi.
    – Chetan Bhargava
    Dec 17, 2014 at 6:49

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