No matter how much you want to escape running graphical applications on a remote Linux server there are times (like when configuring Oracle WebLogic domains for example) that you are forced to do so. Sometimes, the user you have to be running these applications as is not the same as the your login user, this leads to errors like this...


Ooops! This is easy to resolve though.

Before continuing, make sure you are running ssh with the -X switch (and that you have an X11 server running on your machine). Now after logging in as your initial user, do this:


That will give you some output similar to this...


Take note of the above and change to the user you need to run the graphical app as...




Now you need to run xauth again, but this time not using 'list' but 'add' and after the 'add' command you provide the info that the 'list' command gave you above, like so...


Then if everything went right, you can run your graphical app (xclock in the screenshot below).


-i