Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 08:10:08 -0600 (MDT) From: Simon Timms <timms@ugrad.cs.ualberta.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: stimms@petro-canada.ca Subject: x-forwarding problem - no window contents Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0406040753140.956@csu502.cs.ualberta.ca>
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Hi, I.m having a problem with x-forwarding. I have looked through past questions but I haven.t seen anything on this particular topic. I have two FreeBSD 5.2_1 machines at home, one of which I run headless. Usually I manage the headless machine from windows using x-forwarding and either exceed or x-win and putty. Recently I decided that I hate windows so much that it was time to change fulltime to FreeBSD on my desktop however a problem arises. When I forward anything from the server to my desktop machine I don't get the contents of any window. The window frame appears along with the title and is sized correctly but there is nothing inside the frame. I have tried using several different window managers and different users in the hopes it was some sort of setting I had accidentally triggered but to no avail. Has anybody seen this before and how do I fix it? I assume that it is a problem on the desktop machine since forwarding does work between the server and other boxes. Thanks, Simon Appologies if this is a double post it seems that my first attempt was lost somewhere in the bit bucket in the sky.
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