From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 07:18:00 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 D4E6216A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:18:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from destiny.chrononomicon.com (mail.chrononomicon.com [65.193.73.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E01F43D49 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:18:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (destiny.chrononomicon.com [192.168.1.42]) by destiny.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A581FDFF; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:17:09 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:17:09 -0400 To: Simon Timms X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) cc: stimms@petro-canada.ca cc: freebsd-questions Questions Subject: Re: 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 14:18:00 -0000 On Jun 4, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Simon Timms wrote: > 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. Does compression (-C) on ssh have any effect? I've noticed some programs run verrrrry slowwwww without compression (and even then, still run with a bit of lag...like Pan... :-( Does it work better if you connect to a ssh-forwarded VNC session? Anything showing up in logs for ssh?