Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:53:42 -0700 From: Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg Problems Message-ID: <4C727D66.8080908@blakemfg.com> In-Reply-To: <4c7215b5.rIwIR1ZB1fj%2BkBHK%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <4C6D1399.5050601@comcast.net> <4C6CBEAD.4070504@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008190629170.68578@wonkity.com> <4C6F457D.E18CCA82@blakemfg.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008202215160.76288@wonkity.com> <4C700925.715E10B8@blakemfg.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008211442390.79363@wonkity.com> <4C704C7B.134759E5@blakemfg.com> <4c7215b5.rIwIR1ZB1fj%2BkBHK%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Fred Boatwright <fred@blakemfg.com> wrote: > > >> Until FBSD X is working on the pc I have to use Netscape 4.79 on >> a Sun running Solaris 2.6 (which I would prefer to keep using if >> only a modern browser was available) ... >> > > If the problems with X on FBSD are limited to the X "server" > (display subsystem), perhaps you can run X "clients" (such as a > recent version of FireFox) on the FBSD box with DISPLAY set to > the Solaris box. > > The simplest way of doing this is to ssh into the FBSD box from an > xterm (or rxvt, or whatever) on the Solaris box. Depending on how > ssh is set up you may (or may not) need to specify -X to get the > X protocol forwarded. Forwarding will result in DISPLAY being set > to something like localhost:10.0 in the FBSD shell session, and it > should "just work." > _______________________________________________ > > The problem I was having is fixed now. xrdb was hanging for some reason to be fixed later. However, I am very much interested in your suggestion and planned to post some questions about how to do it when I had time to work on it. Best regards, Fred
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