Re: X11 forwarding breaks with 2.7.3_rc2
Re: X11 forwarding breaks with 2.7.3_rc2
- Subject: Re: X11 forwarding breaks with 2.7.3_rc2
- From: "Cook, Rich" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:20:56 +0000
- Thread-topic: X11 forwarding breaks with 2.7.3_rc2
On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:31 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
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> On Aug 23, 2012, at 20:00, "Cook, Rich" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I tried to display and it failed. Any hints or suggestion?
>>
>> cook47@rcmac (~): echo $DISPLAY
>> /tmp/launch-QOJyhr/org.macosforge.xquartz:0 # I hate this weirdness on OS X
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> Why do you hate it? It's a socket. I don't see what's to hate.
It's not the socket-ness of it, it's the naming convention that seems to break tools that expect more "normal" naming schemes. For example, I recall xemacs had a weird bug that caused it to hang and it was due to expecting something "sane" (?) as a DISPLAY. Traditionally, I thought DISPLAY was an optionally hostname-colon pair, then an integer representing a port followed by a dot and a device number. Is a filename really kosher here?
Anyhow, I don't want to get into a religious argument, and I'm not the authority on "normality" and "saneness;" I just thought here's Apple doing something "better" that's actually just massively weird and causes problems. :-)
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>> cook47@rcmac (~): ssh -Y cook47-a@localhost
>> Password:
>> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
>> Last login: Thu Aug 23 16:13:41 2012 from localhost
>> Welcome to Darwin!
>> cook47-a@rcmac (~): xterm
>> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
>> xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:11.0
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> Nuke all your ~/.Xauthority files on both sides. You probably have something stale.
That worked! How odd; never had to do that before. Thanks! :-)
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