From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 15 20:36:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 0540C16A41F for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:36:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aaron@daltons.ca) Received: from priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.net (outbound01.telus.net [199.185.220.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89DCC43D46 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:36:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aaron@daltons.ca) Received: from [192.168.15.100] (really [137.186.246.196]) by priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.04 201-2131-123-105-20051025) with ESMTP id <20060115203625.LWVM27843.priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.net@[192.168.15.100]>; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:36:25 -0700 Message-ID: <43CAB254.9050001@daltons.ca> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:36:36 -0700 From: Aaron Dalton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew D. Fuller" References: <43CA8534.4010306@daltons.ca> <20060115203356.GF40810@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20060115203356.GF40810@over-yonder.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with X11 Forwarding 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: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:36:27 -0000 Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > [ shifting to -questions@ ] > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:24:04AM -0700 I heard the voice of > Aaron Dalton, and lo! it spake thus: > >>editors/fte is fully installed (with X11libs and all that) but I >>wonder if there is more I need installed on the FreeBSD end to make >>things work. > > > You have to have the xorg-clients (or xfree-clients, if you're going > that way) installed to get the xauth(1) binary, so ssh can set the key > for the display it allocates. > > *files this away in his head* I just never saw anything that explicit in the docs anywhere. I apologize for my ignorance and thank you for your help! -- Aaron Dalton | Super Duper Games aaron@daltons.ca | http://superdupergames.org