[Evolution] Problem running evolution removtely with SSH

[Anton J Aylward <aja si on ca>]

I'm having a problem running evolution from my laptop through my
firewall to my workstation using SSH.

What happens is that when I invoke evolution it starts on the
workstation, not on the X display on my laptop.  The laptop is running
Knoppix, the workstation is running Mandrake 9.2, its Evolution 1.4.5.

I've experimented and reduced this to components and tested each in
step.  This is the "bottom line".

I can run an xterm on the workstation, displayed on the laptop and from
there execute various programs.  

GIMP works as expected, displaying on the laptop, as do a number of
other graphical tools such as eye of gnome, and the various gnome games.
Even pysol works.  Acroread, the PDF viewer works. Mozilla works.  GVim
works.  The system configuration tools such as linuxconf work. 
OpenOffice works.

But evolution doesn't.  It starts up on the workstation every time.
This makes no sense.  Evolution NOT honouring the DISPLAY setting by
default.  And yes, I've tried "evolution --DISPLAY=$DISPLAY" and that
doesn't work either.

I've experimented with the configuration and tried ssh to the firewall
(and then to the workstation) instead of using it for port forwarding
and get the same result.

Obviously SSH and X-forwarding _IS_ working since I can get the the
other programs to display correctly, including ones with gnome bindings.

Suggestions?


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Anton J Aylward <aja si on ca>