Is it possible to use X forwarding in Net::OpenSSH?

gold_mark has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,
I need to run some X programs on remote machine (ssh connection, public key authentication) from my script. It is actually xterm with some data output. I need to have xterm window opened on my local (Linux) machine.
I tried passing -X or -Y ssh options in "new" using default_ssh_opts like this:

my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($host,
                    default_ssh_opts => ['-Y']);
my $cmd = 'xterm';
$ssh->system($cmd) or die "Failed to run command: ". $ssh->error;
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and also without quotes, but this does not work (the xterm complains DISPLAY is not set).
How could it be done (if at all)?

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Re: Is it possible to use X forwarding in Net::OpenSSH? by salva (Canon) on Apr 16, 2013 at 09:07 UTC
I have just uploaded to CPAN version 0.61_02 with support for X11 forwarding. X11 forwarding has to be activated both on the constructor and on the individual commands as follows: `my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($host, forward_X11 => 1); $ssh->system({forward_X11 => 1}, 'xterm') or die "Failed to run command: ". $ssh->error;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Is it possible to use X forwarding in Net::OpenSSH? by gold_mark (Initiate) on Apr 20, 2013 at 18:04 UTC
Thanks a lot. I tried it in simple case and it works. Will try full scenario later.	[reply]
Re: Is it possible to use X forwarding in Net::OpenSSH? by hdb (Monsignor) on Apr 16, 2013 at 08:26 UTC
xterm has a -display option. `xterm -display hostname:0.0` [download]	[reply] [d/l]