getting X to work under ssh

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Author: Ted Gould
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Subject: getting X to work under ssh
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On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 14:12, Lynn David Newton wrote:
> I can check that. Meanwhile, I think I have found a
> significant clue ... I don't think X11 is even built on
> the one system. There is a directory /usr/X11R6/bin,
> but all it has in it is a few build tools like imake.
> There are probably underlying libraries that haven't
> even been built.


I'm going to reply just so that it ends up in the archive :)

I'm pretty sure that if that is your issue, the problem is that SSH
can't run stuff like xauth on the client end. I believe that stuff like
that is required for X forwarding. I know that I was having many MIT
magic cookie issues with Xnest, and SSH takes care of all of those for
you.

As an interesting side note, if you don't have any X libraries on the
machine your connecting to, you probably don't have any X programs that
you need to forward :) I guess some could be staticly linked though.

    --Ted


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