From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 07:10:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6119216A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from csu502.cs.ualberta.ca (csu502.cs.ualberta.ca [129.128.41.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D4D843D39 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:10:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timms@ugrad.cs.ualberta.ca) Received: (qmail 1022 invoked by uid 11571); 4 Jun 2004 14:10:09 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 08:10:08 -0600 (MDT) From: Simon Timms X-X-Sender: timms@csu502.cs.ualberta.ca To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: stimms@petro-canada.ca Subject: x-forwarding problem - no window contents X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:10:23 -0000 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.