Re: how to use

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

cfk wrote:

> 	I am still searching for the knowledge to change back and forth twixt Gnome 
> and KDE with Debian and the knowldege to run X remotely from one of my other 
> computers.
>
> 	I can logon to the new Debian box with 'ssh -X xx.xx.xx.xx', but when I run 
> kwrite, I get the message 'cannot connect to X server', even though I ran 
> 'xhost +localhost' on the new Debian computer and rebooted it.
>  
Don't do that (the 'xhost +localhost'); it has security issues that you 
don't want to deal with. Instead, edit "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" and find 
the "X11Forwarding" line and set it to "yes". Then restart ssh with 
"/etc/init.d/sshd restart".

BTW, don't run X as root; instead, install, configure, and learn to use 
"sudo". (I'm not saying you do run X as root, but a lot of newcomers to 
Debian don't realize the security issues/etc involved, so I mention it 
in passing.)

PS. Don't top post, like you did in this message. It's considered bad 
form on this list.

--
Kent