Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:49:09 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: brooks@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minimum x11 apps for ssh support Message-ID: <1187911400.00791552.1187901003@10.7.7.3> In-Reply-To: <1187911399.00791551.1187901003@10.7.7.3>
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:00:01PM -0400, Eric W. Bates wrote: > Brooks said: > > Kind of a dumb question, I suppose; but I'm a little tired of > > installing some 200+ x11 libs and apps simply to provide ssh > > X-forwarding for emacs on a server. > > > > I can live with installing all the libs, but does anyone know what the > > minimum app install is to support X-forwarding? (remarkable difficult > > to discover on Google). I assume xauth is needed; but what else? > > That should be it. > Hmmm, I just tried portinstall x11/xauth and that did not provide X-forwarding. I'm curious to see what you come up with, as I'm sure you're not the only one with this requirement. -- Regards, Doug
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