Re: Remote X11 Connection

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 20:17 +1000, Tony Crouch wrote:
> Hi All,
> Just a curious question regarding connection to remote X11 machines
> through ssh.
> 
> Today, I was wanting to edit some remote files on my university's data
> server. I used the following command to connect:
> 
> ssh -Y ...
> 
> I noticed though on connecting and using emacs to open the required file
> the GUI of the server (which uses KDE) was loaded not my local GUI (Gnome)
> with the data of the file imported.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knew how to configure ssh or X11 so that my
> local GUI is loaded and remote data is imported.
> 
What you experience is what I would expect to happen. I am not sure this
behavior can be changed. You are running the remote window manager under
your X.



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