On Saturday 10 March 2001 22:42, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
> For the moment X11 forwarding through ssh doesn't work on the Mandrake
> distro. I was trying to get this working on my boxen when I noticed the
> following on http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#2.6 :
>
>
> ====
> NOTE: For users of Linux Mandrake 7.2, Mandrake modifies the XAUTHORITY
> environment variable in /etc/skel/.bashrc, and thus any bash user's home
> directory. This
> variable is set by OpenSSH and for either of the above options to work,
> you need to comment out the line:
>
> # export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
> ====
>
> It all boils down to /etc/profile.d/xhost.sh and xhost.csh. Is this
> XAUTHORITY environment setting really needed here, since it will
> overrule the XAUTHORITY environment setting made by ssh --> screws the
> X11 forwarding over ssh...
>
> Stefan
If "export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority" is commented, you won't be able
to run Moorhuhn, for example, or any program like fwin (Win4Lin
fullscreen), that uses another display, accessed by F8.
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