[ESS] x11 configuration for running ess on remote server

[Vitalie Spinu]

That's strange. It works for me. SSH port forwarding should be independent of
ESS/emacs. Does it work from emacs shell with manual ssh? Or better Tramp +
shell?

  Vitalie

>> On Thu, Aug 13 2015 16:21, Zhihao Ding wrote:

> Thanks for you reply. I've got my X11 forwarding working outside emacs. I'm
> able to get plots piped through when I use the terminal. It's just when I
> use ESS mode to work on a remote session, it doesn't fire up any plots via
> X11.

> Cheers,
> Zhihao

> On 13 August 2015 at 15:48, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit using gmail.com> wrote:

>>
>> Add ForwardX11 to your .ssh/config entries. Something like:
>>
>> Host myHost
>>      Hostname  107.107.107.108
>>      User myUser
>>      IdentityFile ~/.ssh/myHost.pem
>>      ForwardX11 yes
>>
>>
>>  Vitalie
>>
>> >> On Wed, Aug 12 2015 12:00, Zhihao Ding wrote:
>>
>> > Hi there,
>>
>> > I had some problems with firing up X11 on remote server. I use tramp to
>> > open a R file on a remote server and start a R session there.  When I do
>> > plot I don't get X11 piped through. How do I configure this?
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Zhihao
>>
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