Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:39:05 +0100 From: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> To: albi <albi@scii.nl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to use X without installing X? Message-ID: <41E77719.3000505@ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <41E6C8B0.1020602@scii.nl> References: <35F05B14-6596-11D9-8196-000A956EB07E@partners.org> <41E6C8B0.1020602@scii.nl>
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albi wrote: > 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 > For X-forwarding to work, you need to have /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth on your server. That is, you have to install xorg-clients too. -- Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax : -3341
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