On the Jabref opening via remote access

Help
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I am trying to use Jabref to do some fixes in my .bib files. I’ve installed via snap at my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS machine and all works fine. But I need to work from other machine in same university, where I can’t install Jabref. So I do the command like this

$ ssh -X user@machine.university.br

And, after give the password:

$ jabref

If I was at a session in my machine, Jabref would open after that command. But how I am doing remote access, I receive an error message:

X11 Connection Rejected Because of Wrong Authentication

But it happens only with Jabref. All other software opens at command line.

I don’t know why this happens, how can I open Jabref remotely, if possible?

Thanks!

2

HI,

this seems to be a general problem with snaps and X11 forwarding.
Here is a workaround:

Since a while we also provide native deb and rpm files:
http://builds.jabref.org/master/

Remember to make a backup of your library before trying this out.

3

Dear Cristoph:

I’ve used the same command, just exchanging “brave” by “jabref” and it works finely!

Thank you very much!

Best regards,

Rogério Nunes Wolff

4

By the way, all other snap software requires the same fix…

Rogério

5

Thanks for the quick feedback. Glad that it works now. :slight_smile: