Thanks for mentioning the -v flag. That shows me this on my iMac in a
terminal window.
email@hidden's password:
debug1: Authentication succeeded (password).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: channel 0: request pty-req
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
forwarding.
debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
debug1: channel 0: request x11-req
debug1: channel 0: request shell
debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
After I see this I execute the X11 program that I find in
/applications/utilities.
You should run this *before* you connect to the remote server.
Otherwise there's no local DISPLAY for the SSH tunnel to connect to.
It takes over ther whole screen in grey and opens a small xterm.
There I execute "X :0 -query MYAIXHOST". At that point the window
dissappears altogether but returns a minute later, all grey, no
desktop, just a grey screen.
What am I doing wrong?
Aha! Don't try that command. That's trying to start the X server
again (you can't - you're already running it!!!) and it's also trying
to start an XDMCP session on the remote host - I don't think the Apple
X server supports these. Besides, XDMCP is also a concept which is
rather outdated these days - it dates from the days that people ran X
on an X Terminal, and the entire session was managed by a server
somewhere else on the network.
That's not the way Apple's X11 is designed to work; it manages its own
X session, running a local window manager (quartz-wm, usually), and
XDMCP is not involved. You just ssh to other machines, and let X
clients talk through the ssh tunnel.
Tim
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Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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