minimum x11 apps for ssh support

[Doug Poland]

Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:49:09AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:00:01PM -0400, Eric W. Bates wrote:
>>     
>>> Brooks said:
>>>       
>>>> Kind of a dumb question, I suppose; but I'm a little tired of
>>>> installing some 200+ x11 libs and apps simply to provide ssh
>>>> X-forwarding for emacs on a server.
>>>>
>>>> I can live with installing all the libs, but does anyone know what the
>>>> minimum app install is to support X-forwarding? (remarkable difficult
>>>> to discover on Google).  I assume xauth is needed; but what else?
>>>>         
>>> That should be it.
>>>
>>>       
>> Hmmm, I just tried portinstall x11/xauth and that did not provide
>> X-forwarding.  I'm curious to see what you come up with, as I'm sure
>> you're not the only one with this requirement.
>>     
>
> This definitly worked for me one a machine with no other X clients.
> Note that with only xauth installed, X forwarding is pretty useless
> until you are bouncing through that machine to another one since you
> won't have any clients.
>
> -- Brooks
Thank you, you are correct.  Installing only xauth does work.  My 
problem was I had just
finished an Xorg 6.9 to Xorg 7.2 upgrade and had forgot to run 
mergebase.sh.  After running
the script, X-forwarding now works.

-- 
Regards,
Doug