Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:30:21 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: window managers don't work over ssh Message-ID: <20050118013021.GA31506@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20050118011736.GA43370@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> References: <200501172343.27077.ian@codepad.net> <20050118011736.GA43370@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net>
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005, cpghost@cordula.ws wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:43:27PM +0000, Xian wrote:
>> I cant seem to make any window manager work over ssh, but they all work
>> locally. I am using Xorg now, and i didn't have this problem with XFree86.
>>
>> I start X with just xterm for testing:
>>
>> startx /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
>>
>> and then type
>>
>> ssh -CXf my.home.machine twm
>
>Hello Xian,
>
>sometimes using -Y instead of -X solves a lot of X11 forwarding
>problems. Not sure if it would solve your problem, but did you try this?
Several conditions have to be met to forward X11 using ssh/openssh:
1. The sshd_config file on the machine you're connecting to has to have
``X11Forwarding yes'' set.
2. On the client machine, the ssh_config file needs ``ForwardX11 yes''
or the ssh command must use the ``-X'' option.
3. On newer versions of openssh, the client ssh_config must have
``ForwardX11Trusted yes''.
Bill
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