From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 19 15:48:08 2005 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 9908916A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:48:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50BA543D53 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:48:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ian@codepad.net) Received: from [80.229.159.44] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1CrI3x-00089x-R2 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:48:05 +0000 From: Xian To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:48:04 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200501172343.27077.ian@codepad.net> <20050118011736.GA43370@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> <200501181019.55970.ian@codepad.net> In-Reply-To: <200501181019.55970.ian@codepad.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501191548.04993.ian@codepad.net> Subject: Re: window managers don't work over ssh 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: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:48:08 -0000 On Tuesday 18 January 2005 10:19, Xian wrote: > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 01:17, cpghost@cordula.ws wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:43:27PM +0000, Xian wrote: > > > I cant seem to make any window manager work over ssh, but they all work > > > locally. I am using Xorg now, and i didn't have this problem with > > > XFree86. > > > > > > I start X with just xterm for testing: > > > > > > startx /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm > > > > > > and then type > > > > > > ssh -CXf my.home.machine twm > > > > Hello Xian, > > > > sometimes using -Y instead of -X solves a lot of X11 forwarding > > problems. Not sure if it would solve your problem, but did you try this? > > > > > in the xterm and it tells me it cant find any unmanaged screens. > > > > > > Ive no idea whats doing wrong because other X apps work over ssh and > > > window managers work locally. > > > > > > Any help much appreciated. > > > -- > > > /Xian > > > > Good luck, > > -cpghost. > > -Y does work on my main machine to test it > > startx /usr/bin/ssh -Y anothe.machine twm -- :1 > > I will mostly be using this from college as I take a FreeSBIE CD with me > and us that instead of whatever M$ windowz happens to be on the machine. > I'll have a good look into what -Y really dose today. > > Thanks :D I'm not quite sure what -Y does after reading the ssh man page. I see that it give the X client more access to your server in some way but not what way. I am running the X server from a FreeSBIE machine, and connecting to my home machine to run KDE. Is this secure enough? -- /Xian "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." Albert Einstein