From b15cb324ab9e3f292bf079fc9b5d3ec4a27e8f70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Jirasek <pavel.jirasek@vsb.cz> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:53:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Tip --- .../graphical-user-interface/x-window-system.md | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs.it4i/general/accessing-the-clusters/graphical-user-interface/x-window-system.md b/docs.it4i/general/accessing-the-clusters/graphical-user-interface/x-window-system.md index e6f4756b5..2b3809ad5 100644 --- a/docs.it4i/general/accessing-the-clusters/graphical-user-interface/x-window-system.md +++ b/docs.it4i/general/accessing-the-clusters/graphical-user-interface/x-window-system.md @@ -28,10 +28,15 @@ Then log in as usual. In order to display graphical user interface GUI of various software tools, you need to enable the X display forwarding. Log in using the -X option in ssh client: ```console - local $ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 local $ ssh -X username@cluster-name.it4i.cz ``` +!!! tip + If unable to execute graphical sofware showing error message "cannot open display" then try export DISPLAY variable before log in using the -X option in ssh client: +```console + local $ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 +``` + ## Verify the Forwarding To verify the forwarding, type -- GitLab