X11 forwarding

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Tue Apr 13 23:12:41 EST 2004


slack at slackware.ru wrote:
> X11 forwarding is not working.
> It has unstable behaviour, X clients often have lost connections (cannot
> find window). Typical example - gimp, launched from remote host.
> Tested latest snapshots.

http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#3.13

3.13 - I upgraded to OpenSSH 3.8 and some X11 programs stopped working.

As documented in the 3.8 release notes, ssh will now use untrusted X11 
cookies by default. The previous behaviour can be restored by setting 
ForwardX11Trusted yes in ssh_config.

Symptoms include BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) and BadAccess 
(attempt to access private resource denied) errors.

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