From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 07:32:41 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 9842E16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:32:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D45B43D1D for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:32:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (a855c03a13ffcaf71abd82224b75cd1d@adsl-67-115-73-128.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.115.73.128])i54EWcQU025591; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:32:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2E7B451CCA; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:32:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:32:38 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Simon Timms Message-ID: <20040604143238.GA46608@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: stimms@petro-canada.ca cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 14:32:41 -0000 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 08:10:08AM -0600, Simon Timms wrote: > 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. >=20 > 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. How are you doing the "X Forwarding"? Exporting DISPLAY directly? Tunneling over SSH with "ssh -X" or "ssh -Y" (you probably want the latter)? Kris --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAwIgFWry0BWjoQKURAqjpAJ4j4JvbPvcaRAEW729rcweTDe8GvwCcDDLL ZtYcTMEhQz0Vn/d4MUlas5w= =Kcm0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--