Bug#524413: xauth fails with xorg 7.4
* gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> [090417 00:51]:
> Since quite some time I've used the following setup (with two machines
> in my LAN for getting $URL from irssi on $server to $desktop):
>
> on $desktop:
> /usr/bin/xauth extract - $desktop:0.0 | ssh $server xauth merge -
>
> on $server:
> DISPLAY=$desktop:0 ssh -X $client sensible-browser "$URL"
Wow, that's quite a running in circles. Why don't you just use
ssh client DISPLAY=:0 sensible-browser "$URL"
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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