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

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:04 +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:04:31AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Same error with that trick. 

Thanks for trying it. This indicates that the problem is either with the
X server in sid or the client side in sarge, but not the X libraries in
sid.


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