From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mark@ixod.org (Mark T.B. Carroll) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: X commands not forwarding Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:27:32 -0400 Organization: none Message-ID: <8764gix7bv.fsf@ixod.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156448466 12589 80.91.229.2 (24 Aug 2006 19:41:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:41:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 24 21:41:04 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGL40-00057b-MT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGL40-0000s8-5K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:40:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.cse.ohio-state.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: omicron.cse.ohio-state.edu Original-X-Trace: news1.cse.ohio-state.edu 1156447652 5746 164.107.112.44 (24 Aug 2006 19:27:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@cse.ohio-state.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:27:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ivsn7JEcyDSxAVCwk77e35ma7GU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141292 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36914 Archived-At: lackita 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. 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. (Apologies for the Unix/Linux-centric view, if you're a Windows user.) -- Mark