window managers don't work over ssh

Xian ian at codepad.net
Wed Jan 19 07:48:08 PST 2005


On Tuesday 18 January 2005 10:19, Xian wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 January 2005 01:17, cpghost at cordula.ws wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:43:27PM +0000, 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
> >
> > Hello Xian,
> >
> > sometimes using -Y instead of -X solves a lot of X11 forwarding
> > problems. Not sure if it would solve your problem, but did you try this?
> >
> > > 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.
> > > --
> > > /Xian
> >
> > Good luck,
> > -cpghost.
>
> -Y does work on my main machine to test it
>
>  startx /usr/bin/ssh -Y anothe.machine twm -- :1
>
> I will mostly be using this from college as I take a FreeSBIE CD with me
> and us that instead of whatever M$ windowz happens to be on the machine.
> I'll have a good look into what -Y really dose today.
>
> Thanks :D

I'm not quite sure what -Y does after reading the ssh man page. I see that it 
give the X client more access to your server in some way but not what way. I 
am running the X server from a FreeSBIE machine, and connecting to my home 
machine to run KDE. Is this secure enough?

-- 
/Xian

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