On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 10:06:18PM +0000, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>
> ssh -X is basically 'straight X' but with the protocol traffic
> transparently forwarded over the SSH connection and some convenience
> features like "setting up a suitable DISPLAY" and
> "handling MIT magic cookie authentication".
>
> For this to work well (for applications where there's any hope that it
> could work well), the remote system needs to have good upstream
> bandwidth to "the internet" which will usually not be the case if ADSL
> is being used. Running dxpc over a ssh-tunneled TCP connection worked
> satisfactorily for me for this case.

How do I run dxpc over ssh? It seems like something I should try.

-- hendrik

>
> > As for the straight X protocol? Soe years ago it seems to have become
> > so paranoid I can't get it to talk to a server that isn't on the same
> > machine as the client.
>
> "Nowadays", X servers don't usually listen on TCP ports by default
> anymore but this can be enabled. But I consider 'ssh -X' or 'ssh + dxpc'
> a better solution as both support transparent compression which is very
> helpful with 'remote X'.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Dng mailing list
> Dng@???
> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng