[clug] Debian sarge, XFree4 and X11

[Andrew Pollock]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:48:55PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:06:04PM +1100, Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au said
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Where should I be looking if a remote server is unable to
> > open X11 displays on my new Debian sarge desktop? It seems
> > my old desktop starts up something that listens externally,
> > but there's no corresponding listener running on my sarge
> > desktop.
> 
> The easist way is to just use SSH's X forwarding..."ssh -X blah at bleh"
> from the machine with the monitor to the machine you want the program to
> run on.
> 

After enabling it in the sshd's config, which in Debian defaults to a big
fat "off".

regards

Andrew

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