Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:30:58 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: failed to launch firefox after upgrading last weekend Message-ID: <xzphdwv8t19.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20040310165513.EAAED5D04@ptavv.es.net> (Kevin Oberman's message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:55:13 -0800") References: <20040310165513.EAAED5D04@ptavv.es.net>
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"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes: > I have been unable to find any X application that runs over an ssh X11 > tunnel with OpenSSH 3.8 without either -Y or ForwardX11Trusted. Even my > stand-by for quick checking, xclock, fails. I have no trouble running Emacs without -Y, though trying to paste from Emacs to another X application or vice-versa kills the connection (because it is not trusted to access the cut buffer). Likewise, any application that needs to grab the keyboard or the mouse (i.e. anything that has pull-down menus) will fail. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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