minimum x11 apps for ssh support

[Doug Poland]

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.


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Regards,
Doug