On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Alex <mysqlstudent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > >>> What is the best way to securely permit a remote X application to >>> display on as local system? > ... > >> Here's what I do: >> local machine: ssh -YC username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > I tried "ssh -X user@host" and that appeared to work fine. What is the > difference between these two commands? Will I be able to perform all > functions remotely using my method, or is the -Y preferred? I could not recall the reason and after some googling, this is what I found: http://support.suso.com/supki/SSH_Tutorial_for_Linux#X11_Session_Forwarding "For some newer programs and newer versions of X windows, you may need to use the -Y option instead for trusted X11 forwarding. Try using this option if your X11 windows program fails to start running with a message like this one that was for Gimp: The program 'gimp-2.2' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'. (Details: serial 154 error_code 3 request_code 38 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) > Thanks for everyone's help. xhost with X11R5 is what I recalled using :-) No problem. X's network centric architecture is the winner here. I am hoping that the "new" wayland [0] will also have the same transparency. [0] http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ -- Harish Pillay h.pillay@xxxxxxxx gpg id: 746809E3 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
