Re: a clean message asking for help (was X11 on MacBookPro running Leopard)
Re: a clean message asking for help (was X11 on MacBookPro running Leopard)
- Subject: Re: a clean message asking for help (was X11 on MacBookPro running Leopard)
- From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:23:39 -0800
On Nov 4, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Raffaella wrote:
Hello again,
I decided to try and write a clean message asking for
the help I need (sorry for the multiple postings).
background:
1) I am running Leopard on a MacBookPro with X11;
2) I have installed the xfix patch
(http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060316124704289)
that on tiger fixed the yellow cursor problem;
questions:
1) how do I undo the xfix?
2) assuming I have undid somehow the xfix should I
then install the patch from:
http://www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin ?
Doing #2 will fix #1.
3) assuming that 1) and 2) are taken care of: what
are the steps to correctly connect to a remote linux
station having X-forwarding properly set up? (I have
been told not to set the DISPLAY but how do you guys
do???)
Assuming you have not set DISPLAY anywhere, you should be able to
connect using SSH tunnelling without any special steps. I.e.
1) Open Terminal.app
2) run "echo $DISPLAY" -- verify the result is of the form "/tmp/
launchd-xxxxx/:0"
3) run "ssh -Y user@host"
4) after you log in, X11.app should start on your Mac
5) run "echo $DISPLAY" (on the remote host) -- verify result is of the
form "localhost:10"
6) run xterm & (on the remote host) -- xterm should appear on your Mac.
Note that some people have seen problems with step 4, where X11.app
can hang while launching -- I don't yet know why this is the case.
--
Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer
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