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Date:      Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:36:52 -0600
From:      Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org>
To:        questions via <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ssh -Y from macOS (11.16.2 Bigsur) to FreeBSD box (12.3)
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 01:38:27AM -0800, Patrick Mahan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 1:25 AM Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>
> wrote:
...
> > I’m not sure whether I installed XQuartz from Apple or XQuartz.org. It
> > used to work. The only change were OS upgrades Catalina-Mojave-Bigsur.
> > Looks like it’s Apple:
> >
> > I’m doing it from a Mac terminal not a xterm.
> >
> > I did not start X11 explicitly. I believe to recall that the macOS window
> > manager accepts X-connections or laumches X11 automatically - Not sure
> > though.

Not in my experience.

When I needed it in the past, I've always launched XQuartz first, and
did the connection from the xterm that popped up. It never worked
direct from an Terminal.app in my memory.




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