On 4/4/25 18:08, Charles Curley wrote:
On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 17:00:09 -0400 Eben King <eben@gmx.us> wrote:to run synaptic you would need to do this on the computer itself, not remotely unless you are using a remote X or Wayland client like VNC.So ssh is right out? That sucketh much. It's not all X clients that don't work, so what's the determinant for not working? Those that use root? GTK?Not necessarily. I routinely ssh into all my computers, to their root and user accounts,
So you ssh-login as root, or do you login as a user then su to root?
and then use GUI programs which display properly on
the machine from which I SSHed in. The trick is in setting up your
target computer's ~/.ssh/config correctly. E.g:
host dragon
Protocol 2
ForwardX11 yes
ForwardX11Trusted yes
That last line might be the critical one. I'll check next time I boot whether that does the trick.