File this under "problems I'll probably fix myself the moment I hit 'send' on an email"...
I'm using prefix on my OSX laptop, typically by starting an xterm and running startprefix. But when I do that, my $DISPLAY isn't inherited, so X apps obviously don't run. In cases like that, my usual hack is to ssh in with X11 forwarding (-Y), but my laptop isn't running sshd. More to the point, that seems like the wrong way to address this issue; why have all that overhead encrypting a connection to localhost? If memory serves, ssh used to support an option for cipher "none", but I don't find that in any manpages now. There has to be a better way...? Thanks.
