I ended up resizing a partition, installing Debian and now forwarding via ssh to Xorg running on that works fine.
I guess there must be some issue with my windows setup and the Xming x server. On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 10:00, Andrew Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > I've tried connecting using both putty and Bitvise SSH client to forward > the X session. Both hang at the same point: > [image: image.png] > > Xauth is installed on the machien running gnucash: > > aclark@discus 1 ~ $ dpkg -l xauth > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | > Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Architecture Description > > +++-==============-============-============-================================= > ii xauth 1:1.0.10-1 amd64 X authentication utility > > I've tried running Xnest on the remote machine and then gnucash in that, > but it still doesn't work. > > e.g. > > Xnest :10 & > DISPLAY=:10.0 gnucash > > Hangs in the same place. > > Things like DISPLAY=10:.0 xeyes work though. > > > > > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 02:57, Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Andrew Clark <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > Yes, when I'm home I use GNUCash on the machine and it works fine. I'm >> only >> > tryign to use the frowarded session because I'm away at the moment. I've >> > previously done this and it worked fine. >> >> What X-forwarding method are you using? >> It works for me using ssh -X >> also ensure you have xauth installed (on the remote machine). >> >> -derek >> >> -- >> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory >> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) >> URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH >> [email protected] PGP key available >> > > > -- > Cheers, > > Andrew. > -- Cheers, Andrew. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
