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Date:      Mon, 13 May 2002 23:31:56 -0400
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 4.2 minor woes
Message-ID:  <20020514033156.GA24513@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <1021339433.81759.3.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
References:  <20020513203338.C9610@velvet.net> <1021339433.81759.3.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>

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Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> probably said:
> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 05:03, Aidan Skinner wrote:
> > 1. remote X from another 4.6-PRE box running XFree86 3 no longer works
> > for GTK+ based applications using either ssh X forwarding or setting
> > DISPLAY to the remote display.
> The default for the X port is to disallow TCP connections by default.

This should not affect ssh X forwarding, and indeed ssh X forwarding
from various remote machines to my 4.6-PRE laptop running XFree86
4.2.0 works just fine.

Is X forwarding turned on on client and server end ? (ssh -v and echo
$DISPLAY should tell you if it's being set up).

P.

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