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Re: Launch X11 upon remote connect?
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Re: Launch X11 upon remote connect?


  • Subject: Re: Launch X11 upon remote connect?
  • From: Jay Levitt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:24:12 -0400

Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
I would say that yes it is possible, and no I don't want to support it. The old-style X over TCP/IP is not very secure. Use ssh with X11 forwarding, and your X11 will startup for you on demand.

A plea for reconsideration:

Is my use case - "remote" X on a secure-enough LAN - unusual? As I mentioned to Brandon Allbery a few days ago, if someone breaks into my apartment, I have more to worry about than packet-sniffing. I'd imagine that there are many office LANs with headless servers in similar situations, no?

I've tried ssh tunneling, but it's very bursty, even for applications that I wouldn't expect to be too demanding; I've seen quarter-second pauses in echoing back my keystrokes, and the same pauses with I-know-it's-not-a-benchmark glxgears. Maybe I've become spoiled by gigabit LANs?

Jay


--Jeremy

On Jun 10, 2008, at 05:32, Jay Levitt wrote:

Sometimes, I accidentally quit X11 instead of the individual application. X11 will automatically launch if a local X client needs it, but the same isn't true of a remote X client.

Is there a way for launchd or something else to launch X11 when a remote connection is received, xinetd-style?

OS X 10.5.3
Xquartz 2.2.1 (xorg-server-1.3.0-apple20)

Jay Levitt
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