I need to run xrestop on a remote machine. When I connect through ssh and run xrestop I get the results for my local machine.
I see that there is an option -display but I don't know how to use it.
How to run xrestop remotely ?
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Maybe it's because of X11Forwarding. Can you try with ForwardX11 set to No in ~/.ssh/config ? – Coren May 09 '12 at 12:38
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1See also If you SSH into another computer, how to access other X displays? and Open a window on a remote X display (why "Cannot open display")? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' May 11 '12 at 00:37
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You use the -display option as normal. The standard display is :0. So if you're logged in via ssh you can run:
xrestop -display :0
Generally you can also explicitly set your DISPLAY shell variable to :0 and all X programs will interact with the remote machines primary display.
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Thank you this is exactly what I wanted. I had tried with "-display :0.0" without success. – Barth May 09 '12 at 12:48