From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 16:44:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2170316A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:44:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web53603.mail.yahoo.com (web53603.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.37.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 869F043D45 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:44:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott@sremick.net) Message-ID: <20041108164430.79042.qmail@web53603.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.213.7.6] by web53603.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 08:44:30 PST X-RocketYMMF: siremick Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 08:44:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Scott I. Remick" To: Matthew Seaman In-Reply-To: <20041108162547.GB19817@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting vino remotely X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: scott@sremick.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:44:31 -0000 --- Matthew Seaman wrote: > That means your ssh(1) session isn't doing X11 forwarding. ssh has he > capability to pose as an X server, usually on localhost:10.0 and > transparently forwards all X session traffic over an encrypted tunnel > back to your desktop display, but only if you enable it. Hmm, well actually it IS enabled in the client I'm using but I'm not understanding why I'd need it. I'm using PuTTY, and under the session config in Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels the option for "Enable X11 forwarding" is checked with the "X display location" set to "localhost:0". However, this is leftover from my days of experimenting with Cygwin (which I did have working but decided was too much of a pain). What I do these days is forward port 5900 over SSH for the sake of VNC and so the X11 forwarding isn't necessary. > Secondly, you're telling X windows to display on the screen of > the remote machine, which won't be a whole lot of use to you. Well my goal here is to restart vino-session, which is command-line and simply needs to spawn into the background, so I don't need to see it. And it seems to ONLY run from the screen of the host system, so (on the contrary) getting vino-session to run on its screen seems to be precisely what I'd want. I feel like I'm misunderstanding something fundamental here, or else I'm not communicating my situation very well. > Instead, read about the '-X' and '-Y' options in ssh(1) and the > equivalent 'ForwardX11' directive in ssh_config(5). Well I'm not using FreeBSD's ssh as I mentioned, I looked at -X though and saw it was just for the X11 forwarding that I already said I've got enabled in the SSH client I AM using (PuTTY) and I see no mention of -Y in the ssh man page to see what the equivalent PuTTY option might be.