I am trying to run gedit from an SSH terminal on Windows, connected to an Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu 12.04 Server and I am getting this error:
Cannot open display:
How do I fix it?
Since you are using Windows on your side, you will need an SSH-client that runs a local X server on Windows to run graphical applications from the server remotely on your screen.
From experience, I would recommend the free MobaXTerm which has this functionality built-in. Please download it and give it a try:
If you get any errors, that's because sometimes a minimal server image may not be set up to allow X-forwarding into it. In that case, please comment and I'll help you solve it; I've done this with lots of minimal VPSs running Ubuntu/Debian.
