Re: X commands not forwarding

[lackita <lackita@gmail.com>]

Mark Carroll wrote:
> 
> lackita <lackita@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I'm sshing into a computer and wanted to forward the X commands to my
>> desktop
>> for obvious reasons.  The problem is that it always runs as if it has the
>> -nox option.  I can get other programs to tunnel, so I know it's not a
>> problem with my x server.  It's possible that this is a version of emacs
>> without X capabilities, so could somebody tell me how to check for that
>> as a
>> starting point.
> 
> That's interesting. To answer your question, perhaps if you do
> 
>        ldd `which emacs`
> 
> then you can see if it's linked against things like libX11.
> 

It appears that it isn't linked against any X libraries.  My next question
would therefore be how I could modify the program to link against such
libraries.


Mark Carroll wrote:
> 
> I can't be sure that text-only ones wouldn't be, but I'd guess that they
> mightn't. (-:
> 
> Does the ssh daemon on your desktop allow X forwarding? For instance, my
> sshd has a config file with a X11Forwarding option that I have to set
> to 'yes' for X forwarding to be permitted.
> 

Other programs have successfully forwarded.  The specific example I used was
xpdf.
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