Problems with X11 Forwarding

Aaron Dalton aaron at daltons.ca
Sun Jan 15 12:36:27 PST 2006


Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> [ shifting to -questions@ ]
> 
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:24:04AM -0700 I heard the voice of
> Aaron Dalton, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
>>editors/fte is fully installed (with X11libs and all that) but I
>>wonder if there is more I need installed on the FreeBSD end to make
>>things work.
> 
> 
> You have to have the xorg-clients (or xfree-clients, if you're going
> that way) installed to get the xauth(1) binary, so ssh can set the key
> for the display it allocates.
> 
> 

*files this away in his head*  I just never saw anything that explicit 
in the docs anywhere.  I apologize for my ignorance and thank you for 
your help!

-- 
Aaron Dalton       |   Super Duper Games
aaron at daltons.ca   |   http://superdupergames.org


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