remote x session

[Frank Staals]

Jonathan Horne wrote:
> On Monday 24 December 2007 01:11:12 pm Jeremy Gransden wrote:
>   
>> On 12/24/07, Jonathan Horne <freebsd at dfwlp.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x
>>> session to
>>> another box, in a window of my currently running session.  xnest is one
>>> way
>>> of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a
>>> little
>>> easier to configure and get going) ?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> --
>>> Jonathan Horne
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>> Can you forward X through ssh? Or is that not what you are looking for?
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>> j
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>
> i did finally get ssh to forwared X, but it only worked with 
>
> ssh -Y [host]
>
> im not sure yet why ssh -X doesnt work, but ive not yet finished reading about 
> the ins and outs of what security settings im overriding with the -Y.
>
> i was able to start xclock as a test.  but what i would really like to be able 
> to accomplish, would be to get the entire 'startx' to work over an ssh 
> session, and have it open as another window on my desktop.
>
> cheers,
>   
Is vnc not an option then ?

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-Frank Staals