[ESS] x11 configuration for running ess on remote server

[Vitalie Spinu]

Have you tried what I suggested earlier? Do you see the problem when ssh-ing
from local emacs shell, or R-ing in remote shell opened through tramp?

  Vitalie

>> On Mon, Aug 17 2015 09:27, Zhihao Ding wrote:

> Thanks very much for your replies. I still haven't got it working. I am
> googling around to see if it's down to some configurations of X11 or ess.

> Best,
> Zhihao

> On 14 August 2015 at 17:17, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:

>> And... now it magically works again, I can no longer reproduce the
>> problem. Good for me, not so good for Zhihao.
>>
>> Zhihao, can you see if it works with a minimal config, e.g., start
>> emacs with 'emacs -q', evaluate[1]
>>
>> (require 'package)
>> (package-initialize)
>> (require 'ess-site)
>>
>> open the remote file and try to plot? If it works that would suggest
>> something in your emacs configuration is the cause, and you can
>> comment out half at a time to see where the problem is.
>>
>> Best,
>> Ista
>>
>> [1] I think this assumes you've installed ESS using the package
>> manager, if you installed it by hand just run _only_ those lines from
>> your emacs initialization file required to load ESS.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'm seeing the same thing here as Zhihao, but only when running with
>> > my full init.el. With emacs -Q and running just
>> >
>> > (require 'package)
>> > (package-initialize)
>> > (require 'ess-site)
>> >
>> > It works correctly. I don't have time to bisect my init.el to figure
>> > out what causes this, but I will do that later if no one else presents
>> > a solution before I have time to look into it.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Ista
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 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 at 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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>> >>>>
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