Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:31:17 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: fred@blakemfg.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg Problems Message-ID: <4c7215b5.rIwIR1ZB1fj%2BkBHK%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4C704C7B.134759E5@blakemfg.com> References: <4C6D1399.5050601@comcast.net> <4C6CBEAD.4070504@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008190629170.68578@wonkity.com> <4C6F457D.E18CCA82@blakemfg.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008202215160.76288@wonkity.com> <4C700925.715E10B8@blakemfg.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008211442390.79363@wonkity.com> <4C704C7B.134759E5@blakemfg.com>
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Fred Boatwright <fred@blakemfg.com> wrote: > Until FBSD X is working on the pc I have to use Netscape 4.79 on > a Sun running Solaris 2.6 (which I would prefer to keep using if > only a modern browser was available) ... If the problems with X on FBSD are limited to the X "server" (display subsystem), perhaps you can run X "clients" (such as a recent version of FireFox) on the FBSD box with DISPLAY set to the Solaris box. The simplest way of doing this is to ssh into the FBSD box from an xterm (or rxvt, or whatever) on the Solaris box. Depending on how ssh is set up you may (or may not) need to specify -X to get the X protocol forwarded. Forwarding will result in DISPLAY being set to something like localhost:10.0 in the FBSD shell session, and it should "just work."
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