Xemacs over ssh tunnel question

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Sat Feb 7 14:38:11 UTC 2009


On 02/03/2009 06:32 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:
>   
>> My Desktop system at work is an HP Integrity (IA64) with Fedora 9 and
>> a GNOME desktop.  Because I do a lot of compiling under xemacs, I ssh
>> -X 
>> to a RHEL 5.2 system to run xemacs. Under RHEL 4, everything worked
>> fine, but under RHEL 5.2 I am unable to click on any buttons on a
>> dialog box. Everything else works fine.
>>     
>
> Maybe you need "ssh -Y"?
>
> (Although you really putting your trust in the remote system's
> security if you do that.)
>   
Possibly, but the 2 systems are on the same subnet, although separated 
by a switch. However, I installed RHEL 5.1 on the workstation, and 
xemacs over and ssh tunnel works fine. The bottom line is that the 
problem is solved.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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