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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:14:56 +0100
From:      albi <albi@scii.nl>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to use X without installing X?
Message-ID:  <41E6C8B0.1020602@scii.nl>
In-Reply-To: <35F05B14-6596-11D9-8196-000A956EB07E@partners.org>
References:  <35F05B14-6596-11D9-8196-000A956EB07E@partners.org>

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Richard Morse wrote:

> Apparently, in order to run the installer for 9i, it needs X.  But, I 
> figure it shouldn't need all of X, because I intend to connect via `ssh 
> -X` from a different computer which is running X to actualy do the 
> display.  However, even once I've installed 'x11/xorg-libraries', when I 
> `ssh -X` to the box $DISPLAY is not set.

did you enable X-forwarding in the sshd-config ? afaik indeed only the 
X-libraries are needed to make remote X over ssh work



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