Ah, righto...
If you export display, it'll make an Xwindows connection to that IP/display number.

Unless you've set up some fruity forwarding to/from your home machine, this prob wont work.

What you need to do is get SSH to set it up for you - give it a -X and it'll make an X listener on the machine you connect to and set the display environment for you. Then it'll just work, forwarding the X traffic down the pipe.

Have a look at the man page for SSH.

Bert, I want to make an SSH tunnel to your X window system and forward my script output through your encrypted pipe.

Edit: Out of the box, X wont be listening to remote IP traffic anyway, for security. So trying to do it using just DISPLAY and not ssh will never work.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 12:41, Reply)