Re: tramp: put X forwarding and custom port to ssh

[Michael Albinus]

Biocyberman <biocyberman@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Emacs users

Hi,

> The goal:
> I have a working X forwarding setup when working with SSH outside emacs.
> Since TRAMP is so attractive, I want to make X forwarding work inside emacs
> as well. This will help  me to run ESS and R code on a remote server and
> output graphics on my local mointor.
>
> What I tried:
> I followed the manual at item 5.4.1 here:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Remote-processes.html
> . I failed with the error described here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30043608/unable-to-start-device-x11cairo-in-r-on-mac-10-10.

If it doesn't help to set DISPLAY on the remote server via Tramp, you
could apply the second tip on this page:

"Another trick might be that you put ForwardX11 yes or ForwardX11Trusted
yes to your ~/.ssh/config file for that host."

Have you tried this?

> Thanks
> Vang

Best regards, Michael.