single linux box on dsl?
Guy Fraser
guy at incentre.net
Fri May 14 16:57:27 UTC 2004
Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 14:26 5/13/2004, Guy Fraser wrote:
>
>> OK, I am wrong.
>>
>> Better to eat crow than starve. :-[ ---
>
> Very nice to see an intelligent, well-supported discussion. Also very
> nice to see someone calmly and quickly admit error rather than be
> stubborn about it.
>
> Thanks to all of you... this has been a very educational thread for
> me. Can someone point me to a beginner's guide to X Forwarding,
> particularly through SSH? I keep hearing that X can display the
> results/output of a program on another machine, and that this can be
> tunneled through SSH. Great, fine, I get it... and I'd *love* to do
> it. Yet I can't seem to find a HOWTO that will explain the how and the
> why to me...
>
> An FM I can R, please?
I am not sure about the any fine manuals.
I recently got a FreeBSD 5.2 box to forward X to my FC1 box.
I had struggled with that box for some time and could not figure out why
it was not working. I have other FreeBSD boxes that forward X quite
well. Finally a couple of days ago I decided to install a complete XF86
setup rather than just the libs. Killed sshd started sshd then logged
out. After
logging back in I could run nedit and it worked.
The moral of this story may be, a full X system may need to be installed on
the machine you are trying to run the application from. X does not need
to be
running, so it just wastes some drive space.
If a full X system is on the machine, then you will need to edit the
sshd_config
file and add these commands :
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost yes
They may be in the file already and just need to have the comment character
removed.
Once the sshd_config is updated you will need to stop sshd then start it
again.
I have on occasion come across a machine or two that required the
environment
variable 'DISPLAY' to be set and exported in .bash_profile like this :
export DISPLAY='localhost:0.0'
I don't know if DISPLAY=':0.0' would work or not, because I didn't try.
I hope that helps.
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