Peter W Beninate became daring and sent these 0.5K bytes, > William Hooper wrote: > >Michael Marsh said: > > > >>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. > > > >This has never been how X forwarding works. Perhaps you are confusing it > >with VNC? > > I have heard of people tunneling X through ssh, but have never done it > myself. I do this all the time like so: ssh -CX username@host application But i generally just open up a terminal and ssh to the host and enter the application name, example. gedit and it is forwarded to my local machine. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | 0 1 0 -> Aaron M Matteson - 0xD144B7FF | | 0 0 1 --> Windows and Linux C++/C# Developer | | 1 1 1 ---> Researching the past to understand the future. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | "Upon the one who is capable, vigorous and penetrating to the | | Great Knowledge, the Two Gods Ea and Asarluhi will confer Vast | | Understanding; these Gods will assure her/him a Guardian Angel, | | whose name will be pronounced until the most distant times" | | Assyrian Magician's Manual, Kar 44, r. 17-20. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | aaron.matteson(at)gmx(dot)net - An opinionated email address | | http://aaron.techcommons.info/ - An opinionated blog | | http://aaron.techcommons.info/wiki/ - Projects via wiki | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
