Re: X forwarding work, x program output goes to /dev/null?

To: Torbjörn Granlund <tg%gmplib.org@localhost>, netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: X forwarding work, x program output goes to /dev/null?
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:54:43 +0100

On 2015-02-25 14:47, Torbjörn Granlund wrote:

This is a strange problem.  I routinely use

   ssh -X somemachine

and then e.g., do

    vncviewer [blahblah]

or some other X command.


You might want to use -Y instead of -X...
Not sure if that is the problem here, though.

Another thing to check is if the ssh server allows X forwarding. Check/etc/sshd.conf


	Johnny

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