I have encountered a couple of issues with 16.04 (LTS) and X-Forwarding. First, the setup I am using.
· From a Windows (10) box, using X-Ming, I regularly used gnome-terminal windows from a Ubuntu server on my on my windows desktop. · The setup worked well with 14.04 (LTS) When I upgraded to 16.04 things got strange: · Early in the setup of the upgraded system, gnome-terminal worked as expected (almost). o I was not able to get X-Forwarding to function consistently. Only sometimes I was able to initiate other windows from the gnome-terminal window for emacs, synaptic, google-chrome etc. o Typically the first time works, but not afterword. This is an apparent known issue. Note that *xterm* does not have the forwarding issue. · I updated my .profile to what I typically use. In that setup, I have “LANG=C”. o If the value is set PRIOR to starting a gnome-terminal the process will not run, erroring out with a message about not being able to connect to the bus. Apparently gnome-terminal uses a “bus” service to communicate requests. The “LANG=C” seems to prevent that service from starting. o If gnome-terminal is run before “LANG=C” is set, the service is started and gnome-terminal runs. o If the default value for LANG is used “LANG=en_US.UTF-8”, then gnome-terminal has starts, but still has the forwarding issue. I hope this helps people in PLUG. -- Bill Morita 512-569-6387 (Cell) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
