<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Grace,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m not sure why that’s happening, but I’ve seen similar behavior when ssh’ing from a Mac to certain Linux machines myself. Could you please try running “ssh -Y …” instead of “ssh -X …”, and then run xclock again?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope this helps,</div><div class="">Kevin</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 11, 2017, at 11:35 AM, Grace Choi <<a href="mailto:gracesh27@gmail.com" class="">gracesh27@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:12pt;font-family:courier;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,51,51)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;white-space:normal" class="">Hello, </font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;white-space:normal" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;white-space:normal" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">I have followed all the steps on NCL website to install the necessary programs, have X quartz. I have s<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51)" class="">et the NCARG_ROOT environment variable, a</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51)" class="">dded $NCARG_ROOT/bin to my search path, and turned on X11 forwarding by putting in </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)" class="">ssh -X. Still,</span> whenever I type in xclock I get <span style="" class="">Error: Can't open display:</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;white-space:normal" class=""><span style="" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;white-space:normal" class="">How can I move beyond this error? Please help. Thanks.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;white-space:normal" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;white-space:normal" class="">Best,</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;white-space:normal" class="">Grace</div></pre></div>
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