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gedit on telnet

Asked by Mário Poeta

hello,
I am using telnet , and i wanna make gedit comand to a file which is in the other computer and then appear Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:.
This errror appear when i am using zenity or dialog too.
And i wanna make that without using a SU or root, is that possible?

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Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#1

To run graphical programs.....

I suggest using ssh with x forwarding, rather that telnet.
The command with x forwarding would look something like.

ssh user@ipaddresss -X

If you must use telnet, things get a little more complicated, as you will need set the DISPLAY environment variable to redirect x from the server to you client

Hope this helps,
Wyatt

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