X11 problem

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Oct 20 20:36:27 UTC 2004



On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Rob Shewan wrote:

> I can usually start netscape on a  RedHat 7.3 distribution with the display
> rendered on my box running Fedora Core 2. My system has been upgraded with the
> latest available for FCt3.
> 
> The connection is via ssh with -X as an argument. For example: ssh -X rh7

Try: ssh -Y rh7

from ssh manpage:  ' -Y    Enables trusted X11 forwarding.'

> xhost + has been executed on the display machine. 

you don't have to ever use this with ssh-x11-forwarding

Satish




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