On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:28:05PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > on second thought: You don’t install x11-utils in your log, and the > error message doesn’t quite look like it – rather like a problem > with the X forwarding by ssh. Is it possible that the packages you > installed were necessary to make X11 forwarding possible in general, > and the problem is not xmonad-specific?
You may be right; I removed xbase-clients (removing the depdenencies
it pulled in), then aptitude purged ~c.
I then installed 9wm, which didn't need any new dependencies (i.e. all
its dependencies were already installed). I now get
$ ssh -X dhcp41 9wm
9wm: can't open display: Success
PS: Ah, perhaps I can't do ssh -X because that needs xauth on both
ends (xauth is provided by xbase-clients). I can't easily confirm
this at the moment because the host with xmonad is on the other side
of the internet, and both it and my X server are behind NATs, so I
can't use ssh-less xauth-less remote X (because I'd need root on the
routers responsible for denatting).
> Please check and close the bug if that’s the case.
Probably the case, but I'll leave open until you split the bug (for
the aforementioned missing xmessage dependency).
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