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Re: X server acting funny when displaying remote KDE session
- From: Stefan Heinzmann <stefan_heinzmann at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:40:58 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: X server acting funny when displaying remote KDE session
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
--- Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de>
schrieb: > Hi Stefan,
>
>
> Stefan Heinzmann <stefan_heinzmann@yahoo.com> writes:
> > I see more chance for success when analyzing the
> SSH_CLIENT variable
> > that is left behind by ssh. It contains the client's IP
> address,
> > which could be grafted into the DISPLAY variable. I'm
> not a shell
> > script guru, but I could try to put something together.
>
> No. Ssh uses port forwarding. That works by accepting X
> connections
> locally at the client machine and than forwarding the data
> packets
> that arrive on that "display" to your actual server through
> an
> internal SSH tunnel. Your DISPLAY variable on the client
> should be
> something like localhost:10.0.
Ah, that means that xhost + should not be needed because
neither the X server nor the client notices that the
connection isn't local. Well, I need xhost +, so the
tunneling is most probably not working. But why does ssh not
complain? I do provide the -X option!
Cheers
Stefan
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