Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.

[Keith Thompson <kst at mib dot org>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 03:00:42PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Keith Thompson wrote:
> 
> > It looks like the problem has to do with the new OpenSSH package.
> >
> > I tried logging into my Solaris box using SecureCRT, a Windows SSH client,
> > and then starting up an xterm from there; cut-and-paste worked correctly.
> >
> > Now I've re-upgraded all the XFree86 packages and downgraded OpenSSH to
> > OpenSSH_3.7.1p2, and cut-and-paste still works correctly.
> >
> > It looks like there's a problem with X forwarding in the new OpenSSH
> > package.
> 
> >From the new OpenSSH-3.8p1-1 announcement:
> 
> * ssh(1) now uses untrusted cookies for X11-Forwarding.
>   Some X11 applications might need full access to the X11 server,
>   see ForwardX11Trusted in ssh(1) and xauth(1) for more information.

Thanks.  Adding
    ForwardX11Trusted yes
to my $HOME/.ssh/config did the trick.

(Oddly, I never saw the problem on my Windows 2000 system, only on
Windows XP.)

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