Tag forwarded X11 connection as remote
Peter Stuge
peter at stuge.se
Tue Oct 3 01:56:33 AEDT 2017
Michal Srb wrote:
> > > The ideal solution would be if ssh marked the connection as remote.
> >
> > Not forwarding/proxying also the fd to the remote SSH client?
>
> I am not sure what you are suggesting.
>
> The SSH client runs on the same machine as X server
Sorry - I meant the SSH server/X client.
> SSH should mark the connection as remote, so X server knows to not
> attempt things that can not work remotely.
I was suggesting to make them work. But it depends on what the fd is of
course. If it's a device handle then I think your suggestion is the only
approach that makes sense.
//Peter
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