Re: X from remote machine

From: Dolphin (usenet-May+lr_at_2005.dolphinwave.org)
Date: 06/19/05 

Date: 19 Jun 2005 21:19:50 +0200

#begin p@uni-bielefeld.de.exe (or was it Peter Kuehnlein.com)
 message <pan.2005.06.17.12.40.41.365803@uni-bielefeld.de> reply:
> Dear list members,
> I've set up FC3 on a machine and it's running by and large w/o problems
> (now). There is only one thing that is going on my nerves: in the old
> days last week, when I worked w/ ssh on a remote machine, RH9 used to
> display the remote application, say, emacs, on the local screen. Somehow I
> can't tell FC3 to do that. I, e.g., only get emacs within the xterm. Not
> even setting xhost to "+" works, although I already fiddled around with
> gdm.conf. Does someone know how to trick FC3 into doing what I want?
>
> Thx in advance:
> Peter

Since FC3 (if I'm not mistaking), SSH does not forward X sessions by
default (no remote graphical programs will work through SSH). You should
use -X or -Y switch to do it explicitly for the SSH session you run.

man ssh -> scroll down for -X, -Y switches.

HTH, HAND.

Dolphin. 

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