So I was able to patch up jsch and test this out and it worked great. Using X11 forwarding You will need to do the following to use X11 forwarding in PyCharm: – Install an X Server if you don’t already have one. On Windows this might be the VcXsrv project, on Mac OS X … Read more
export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority This fix worked for me
You can try with Xvfb. it does not require additional hardware. Install Xvfb if you didn’t install it yet and do the following steps. sudo apt-get install -y xvfb Dependencies to make “headless” chrome/selenium work: sudo apt-get -y install xorg xvfb gtk2-engines-pixbuf sudo apt-get -y install dbus-x11 xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-scalable Optional but nifty: … Read more
I figured it out. When you are connecting to a computer with SSH and using X11 forwarding, /tmp/.X11-unix is not used for the X communication and the part related to $XSOCK is unnecessary. Any X application rather uses the hostname in $DISPLAY, typically “localhost” and connects using TCP. This is then tunneled back to the … Read more
Adding the -v option to ssh when trying to log in will give a lot of debug information which might give a clue to exactly what the problem is, like for instance debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing. which in my case installing xauth on the server fixed the issue.
TL;DR: Add the following to your ~/.bashrc: export DISPLAY=$(ip route list default | awk ‘{print $3}’):0 export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 Enable Public Access on your X11 server for Windows.* Add a separate inbound rule for TCP port 6000 to the windows firewall in order to allow WSL access to the X server, as described by the wsl-windows-toolbar-launcher … Read more