On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 10:06:18PM +0000, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > ssh -X is basically 'straight X' but with the protocol traffic > transparently forwarded over the SSH connection and some convenience > features like "setting up a suitable DISPLAY" and > "handling MIT magic cookie authentication". > > For this to work well (for applications where there's any hope that it > could work well), the remote system needs to have good upstream > bandwidth to "the internet" which will usually not be the case if ADSL > is being used. Running dxpc over a ssh-tunneled TCP connection worked > satisfactorily for me for this case.
How do I run dxpc over ssh? It seems like something I should try. -- hendrik > > > As for the straight X protocol? Soe years ago it seems to have become > > so paranoid I can't get it to talk to a server that isn't on the same > > machine as the client. > > "Nowadays", X servers don't usually listen on TCP ports by default > anymore but this can be enabled. But I consider 'ssh -X' or 'ssh + dxpc' > a better solution as both support transparent compression which is very > helpful with 'remote X'. > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng