Bug#366355: libx11: ssh -X between Sarges XF86 and Sids Xorg7 broken

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 10:43 +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:27:52AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > Does it work if you connect to the X server directly instead of via ssh?
> 
> Difficult. There's no X Server running on that machine and it's located
> 1000 km away from me (Karlsruhe <-> Rostock).

I mean the X server on your local machine. Something like

ssh -R6011:localhost:6000 remoteuser@remotemachine

should set up a port forwarding from display :11 on the remote machine
to :0 on the local machine, so running

DISPLAY=localhost:11 nedit ...

in that session should connect to the local X server directly.

Of course, this requires that you don't start the X server with
-nolisten tcp.


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