bin/120963: X11 forwarding cannot work

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Sat Feb 23 09:10:04 UTC 2008


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

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
To: TATEOKA Takamichi <tate at cs.uec.ac.jp>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/120963: X11 forwarding cannot work
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:00:40 +0100

 TATEOKA Takamichi wrote:
 > 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.
 
 Yes, it will be changed over time.
 
 Thanks,
 Kris
 


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