bin/120963: X11 forwarding cannot work

TATEOKA Takamichi tate at cs.uec.ac.jp
Sat Feb 23 03:30:08 UTC 2008


The following reply was made to PR bin/120963; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: TATEOKA Takamichi <tate at cs.uec.ac.jp>
To: kris at FreeBSD.org
Cc: tate at cs.uec.ac.jp, FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/120963: X11 forwarding cannot work
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:28:15 +0900 (JST)

 From: Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
 > >   Yes, I did fresh install 6.3R on a clean system.  If this symbolic
 > > link is still required, 6.4R base system (or X11 ports?) should have
 > > this symbolic link, I think.
 > 
 > It should happen automatically when the xorg metaport is installed (this 
 > is the best way to ensure you have a complete xorg installation).  If 
 > you only installed parts of xorg then you will have to add the symlink 
 > by hand.
 
   Yes, I installed only ports/x11/xauth because the host is a firewall
 server and doesn't need almost X11 servers and applications.
   It may be a rare case, but I hope default X11BASE becomes /usr/local
 in future release.
 
 Thanks,
 Takamichi Tateoka


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