Forwarding X over ssh fails with "/usr/bin/xterm Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0"

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Issue

  • Forwarding X over ssh fails with the error message:
/usr/bin/xterm Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as ssh server
  • XManager 3.0 on Windows as ssh client

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