Re: Problems forwarding X over ssh

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Michael Marsh became daring and sent these 0.6K bytes,
> I upgraded from red hat 9 to fedora core 2 and used to forward my x graphical screen to my laptop at work.  Now
> when I do the same thing with FC2,  It looks like the screen is forwarding OK but I can only get a graphically
> based terminal.  Really strange.... but it seems like it is sort of working... just not forwarding what I would
> get if I were physically sitting at the terminal.

Take a peek at /etc/ssh/ssh_config and make sure you see the line not
hashed out:

ForwardX11 yes

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And lastly, i am not familiar with SELinux, but it strikes me that there
may be a policy not allowing you to forward X or any applications if you
have SELinux enabled.

Hope that helps.

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