title: Displaying on a local machine when running on a server
body: <p>I imagine what I am wanting to do is quite a regular issue but having had a search I can't find a solution. Basically I am running Ipython on a remote server and I want to be able to use matplotlib and then it display on my local machine.</p>
  
  <p>The issue is with me not being able to connect to the X server it seems. Here is what I am getting when I try to run matplotlib</p>
  
  <pre><code>In [1]: %matplotlib
   : cannot connect to X server
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas anyone? Like I say I would imagine this must be a pretty common issue :)</p>