Okay, I'm drawing a blank on X11 and ssh. I'm ssh'ing to a box that has Xforwarding enabled from my desktop (Slack) that has fvwm2 as it's window manager. However, when I try to run an X app I get "can't open display" from the other system that I connected to. I did do "xhost +servername" and got the display error. I then tried "xhost +" and still get it. I'm looking at my X options within ssh_config but don't see anything that's standing out for me on what to enable to allow it. Just to say it, I did also try exporting my display back to my local system to no avail. I did a search for X11+ssh+local+display and came up with 31,000 hits. I dug thru a few of them, but didn't find anything conclusive except that this works: $ ssh -X host.domain.com But I can't find the equivalent of this for the local ssh_config file. Also, I plan on upgrading my system but I wanted to do some testing on ssh prior to doing so. I tried to set "Compression yes" on a system with Openssh 3.2.3p1 but it comes up with an invalid option. I know I can set it with "ssh -C" but was looking for a default setting. The man page for ssh shows that what I did was supposed to be correct, but didn't look like it was working. Thanks. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list