Minimum install - forwarding X11 windows

Dave Mitchell davem at iabyn.com
Tue May 23 21:03:52 UTC 2006


On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:38:07PM -0400, Jeffrey B. Murphy wrote:
> I did a minimum install of Fedora Core 5. Now I would like to add the
> minimum packages in order to forward X11 packets to another machine.
> 
> When I ssh -X into the box, the Display variable does not get set (I
> have X11Forwarding yes in sshd.conf). I believe it is becasue I am
> missing the base components to for X11.
> 
> Any suggestions as to what to install? I am trying to install a little
> as possible.

IIRC, you need xauth and dependent libraries; try

    yum install xorg-x11-xaut

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