From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 24 19:16:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C9416A419 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:16:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from pollux.dfwlp.com (rrcs-64-183-212-244.sw.biz.rr.com [64.183.212.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DFB713C448 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:16:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from athena.dfwlp.com (athena.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by pollux.dfwlp.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBOJGMcG057979 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:16:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:16:22 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200712241005.45959.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <87f7f4170712241111t157ad17cpf1c756f6db178d24@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87f7f4170712241111t157ad17cpf1c756f6db178d24@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712241316.22157.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on pollux.dfwlp.com Subject: Re: remote x session X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:16:24 -0000 On Monday 24 December 2007 01:11:12 pm Jeremy Gransden wrote: > On 12/24/07, Jonathan Horne wrote: > > i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x > > session to > > another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one > > way > > of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a > > little > > easier to configure and get going) ? > > > > cheers, > > -- > > Jonathan Horne > > http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org > > freebsd@dfwlp.com > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Can you forward X through ssh? Or is that not what you are looking for? > > > thanks, > j > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" i did finally get ssh to forwared X, but it only worked with ssh -Y [host] im not sure yet why ssh -X doesnt work, but ive not yet finished reading about the ins and outs of what security settings im overriding with the -Y. i was able to start xclock as a test. but what i would really like to be able to accomplish, would be to get the entire 'startx' to work over an ssh session, and have it open as another window on my desktop. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org freebsd@dfwlp.com