X over SSH!

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
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Subject: X over SSH!
Sanjay,

Please consider using a reply indent (like a "> ") to separate
comments in your replies. Your posting is unclear (to other readers) on
what you and I wrote. Now that I look again, you sent two attachments
one in plain text which was indented correct with a ">" and the other
mail in html. The html version is what my reader (pine) displayed. I
guess it didn't understand the "cite" syntax, because it didn't
distinguish between our comments.

My comments below.

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Sanjay Darisi wrote:

> Could you tell me how do u configure ssh for X forwarding, just to know
> for future use? Just setting the ForwardX11 to yes??


You also need it allowed by the server too.

X11Forwarding yes

See the ssh_config and sshd_config manuals.

> May be I didn't phrase my question well. It's not like I want the prompt
> back. Why is it different ? When I say mozilla it brings up the mozilla
> on local machine and gives the prompt back but when I say xcalc it
> brings up calculator and waits for it to terminate. I know how to put it
> in background. How come its doing it for mozilla and not for xcalc? Or
> may be its not a serious issue to be thought about :-)


Maybe your mozilla is a script that backgrounds it. Or maybe mozilla uses
fork(2) or daemon(3) to detach from terminal and run in background.

Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/