[Cialug] SSH annoyance

[John Lengeling]

Just invoke ssh with:

Ssh -X remote-host

Then once you are logged in, start a simple X app like xclock to test.

X11 over a WAN/dsl/cable connection can be slooow.   VNC server would be
a better choice to use IMHO over a WAN connection.  YMMV.

johnl

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of Tom Sellers
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:10 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] SSH annoyance


Dan,

Can you point me to some information on how to use X over ssh?  I just
recently figured out how to get ssh working from work to home but would
love to be able to do so with a graphical desktop screen.

Tom


--- On Mon, 3/2/09, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:

> From: Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] SSH annoyance
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 10:59 AM
> On 2009-02-27 at 18:53:47, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> >I'm not sure if this is distro-specific or
> something from upstream,
> >but newer versions of SSH turn off X11 forwarding in
> the config files.
> > Check your config files for something like this:
> >
> >ForwardAgent no
> >ForwardX11 yes
> >ForwardX11Trusted yes
> 
> I do have all the X11 forwarding stuff enabled and have for
> years.
> 
> But, the issue i was seeing last week is no longer of as
> much importance 
> to me. This week, after logging out for the weekend, X11
> forwarding 
> seems to be working as it always has. I don't know what
> was wrong with 
> my session last week, but it is fixed now. Usually when any
> packages 
> related to X get updated i try to log out and back in
> fairly soon to 
> make sure everything is consistently using the updated
> package, but 
> perhaps i neglected to do that.
> 
>
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