Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:58:54 +0000 From: Xian <ian@codepad.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ssh, window managers, and xorg Message-ID: <200501051958.54515.ian@codepad.net>
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I use xorg and it works well for everything local. To test it I started xorg with just xterm as the client like so: % startx /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm In this terminal I can start a window manger such as twm and it works fine, but I can't start a window manger on a remote machine: % ssh -Xf some.machine twm twm: another window manager is already running on screen 0? twm: unable to find any unmanaged screens I can use ssh like that to start an xterm or any other xclient on another machine tho. I don't think the KDE window manger has much success either cos when that is started remotely none of the windows have borders but it doesn't complain. I can do exactly the same things on a machine using XFree86 instead and they all work fine. Do i have to tell xorg to allow remote window managers or something? or dose it have a window manger built in that I have to disable? I have found this to happen on my workstation and on the FreeSBIE CD that I am trying to use at college. Any help will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- /Xian "In C we had to code our own bugs. In C++ we can inherit them" unknown author
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