Re: X11 and Leopard
Re: X11 and Leopard
- Subject: Re: X11 and Leopard
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:37:09 -0700
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007, Ben Byer wrote:
>
>On Oct 29, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Bobby Jones wrote:
>
>>One complaint I have about the current X11 is Xforwarding has YET to
>>work properly for me. no matter how I try to slice it.
>>
>>Normally you have to execute xhost + to allow connection. . . when
>>you do that it launches X11. . . then you try to remote ssh into a
>>machine. . . it completely locks up the shell, I'm assuming it's
>>causing Xauth to hang.
>
>If you're using ssh X forwarding, you shouldn't need to run "xhost +"
>first. If you just run ssh -X ... from Terminal, do you still run
>into problems?
I've found that ``ssh -Y hostname'' is far more reliable or one can also
set ``ForwardX11Trusted yes'' in the /etc/ssh_config file (set ForwardAgent
yes and ForwardX11 yes while you're at it).
Bill
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