[Wylug-discuss] How to connect to X-server

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, James Holden wrote:

> Yes, but X11Forwarding must be set to Yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the
> server. It sometimes isn't by default.

Quite right, an important omission.

>> You didn't say how you're connecting though, so there's some assumptions going
>> on there.
>>
>> The way you are doing it doesn't work on a current Fedora box, as X is run
>> with -nolisten tcp which prevents that technique from working.
>
> Many distros are set up this way now. You have to restart the X server
> to enable it, after editing your display manager config.

It's an entirely sane way of setting X up, and I'm all in favour of only
enabling it as a last resort.

jh

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