Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:05:17 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minimum x11 apps for ssh support Message-ID: <46D3125D.8090409@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20070827153751.GB7360@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <1187911399.00791551.1187901003@10.7.7.3> <1187911400.00791552.1187901003@10.7.7.3> <20070827153751.GB7360@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:49:09AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:00:01PM -0400, Eric W. Bates wrote: >> >>> Brooks said: >>> >>>> Kind of a dumb question, I suppose; but I'm a little tired of >>>> installing some 200+ x11 libs and apps simply to provide ssh >>>> X-forwarding for emacs on a server. >>>> >>>> I can live with installing all the libs, but does anyone know what the >>>> minimum app install is to support X-forwarding? (remarkable difficult >>>> to discover on Google). I assume xauth is needed; but what else? >>>> >>> That should be it. >>> >>> >> Hmmm, I just tried portinstall x11/xauth and that did not provide >> X-forwarding. I'm curious to see what you come up with, as I'm sure >> you're not the only one with this requirement. >> > > This definitly worked for me one a machine with no other X clients. > Note that with only xauth installed, X forwarding is pretty useless > until you are bouncing through that machine to another one since you > won't have any clients. > > -- Brooks Thank you, you are correct. Installing only xauth does work. My problem was I had just finished an Xorg 6.9 to Xorg 7.2 upgrade and had forgot to run mergebase.sh. After running the script, X-forwarding now works. -- Regards, Doug
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