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I have two servers (lets say A and B). In order to ssh into A, I need to ssh into B first, and then into A. I want to run some GUI applications on A, so I am looking to forward X11 twice over ssh.

However when I run an application from A I get:

Error: no display specified
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Make sure that you're adding the -Y flag, and that X11 forwarding is enabled in both servers' ssh config files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

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yes and yes ... – Vaibhav Bajpai Mar 22 '11 at 17:13
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would the following work for you?

export DISPLAY=serverB:0
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well, I gave export DISPLAY:IPAddressOfB:0 (didn't work) – Vaibhav Bajpai Mar 22 '11 at 17:14
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