On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 01:07, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > Summary > ------- > As described in another thread > (<http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=141677224322425&w=1>), > I'm trying to run firefox as a non-privileged user _firefox, talking > to my X server (no Xephyr yet) via an ssh tunnel. But I've discovered > a serious flaw in this scheme: cut-n-paste is completely broken. In > fact, it looks like cut-n-paste from any X client with a diferent > uid/gid than the X server is broken. :( > > My basic question is, is there any way to fix this?
That is "by design". Secure X sessions do not permit access. If you want to grant full access to the X session, use ssh -Y for an insecure connection. The fact that basically every X client application crashes in this case is somewhat less by design, but as a practicaly matter, nothing handles these errors appropriately.
