Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:37:51 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minimum x11 apps for ssh support Message-ID: <20070827153751.GB7360@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <1187911400.00791552.1187901003@10.7.7.3> References: <1187911399.00791551.1187901003@10.7.7.3> <1187911400.00791552.1187901003@10.7.7.3>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:49:09AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > 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. This definitly worked for me one a machine with no other X clients. Note that with only xauth installed, X forwarding is pretty useless until you are bouncing through that machine to another one since you won't have any clients. -- Brooks [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFG0u/DXY6L6fI4GtQRAmZpAJwItu/itbIr3awdFThfVxBJgNA40ACgvUB6 Ypvp8WJ9ZEQFo29SQnGw0bU= =yNeQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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