From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 00:24:42 2005 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 9B79F16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:24:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4373C43D39 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:24:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdaemon@comcast.net) Received: from fw.home (pcp05404374pcs.norstn01.pa.comcast.net[68.80.144.252]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <2005011800244101600702sde>; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:24:41 +0000 Received: (qmail 96802 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2005 00:24:52 -0000 Received: from kris.home (HELO ?192.168.0.251?) (192.168.0.251) by fw.home with SMTP; 18 Jan 2005 00:24:52 -0000 Message-ID: <41EC5899.2060300@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:30:17 -0500 From: Kris Maglione User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041212) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200501172343.27077.ian@codepad.net> In-Reply-To: <200501172343.27077.ian@codepad.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig754FCCBEE18F2B46CFC6C799" Subject: Re: window managers don't work over ssh X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:24:42 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig754FCCBEE18F2B46CFC6C799 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit what's in your ~/.xinitrc ? you may be running twm or the like. Xian wrote: >I cant seem to make any window manager work over ssh, but they all work >locally. I am using Xorg now, and i didn't have this problem with XFree86. > >I start X with just xterm for testing: > > startx /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm > >and then type > > ssh -CXf my.home.machine twm > >in the xterm and it tells me it cant find any unmanaged screens. > >Ive no idea whats doing wrong because other X apps work over ssh and window >managers work locally. > >Any help much appreciated. > > --------------enig754FCCBEE18F2B46CFC6C799 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB7FiZmcXjc1XBrAQRAlyXAJ49VE04kyooWBuLaGK9tXma5gpkZgCfdSEl jOF5JhAiE5J5mcPOJizlpGU= =b9zz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig754FCCBEE18F2B46CFC6C799--