Hi there,

Summarising what I've discovered so far with help from aols people (Lew
and Henrik in particular) and RTFMing:

/etc/ssh/sshd_config needs these three:

X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost yes

Lew also suggests 'AllowTcpForwarding yes' but that's the default, comes
commented out?

Henrik was keen to get max performance, to this end:

In PuTTY setup:

turn off SSH -> "Enable compression", as it is for slow serial comm links.
turn on SSH -> X11 -> "Enable X11 forwarding"


On windoze 'magpie', allow sempro to talk to display:

F:\bin\xapps>type x_sempro.bat
@echo=off
set DISPLAY=localhost:0
f:\bin\xapps\xhost + sempro

This .bat file is called from the Xmingrc tray icon right-click menu (see below)


on sempro:
grant@sempro:~$ DISPLAY=magpie:0 xterm &

This will likely end up an alias in .bashrc

X apps are then launched from the xterm as usual when one isn't running
a desktop. Running apps like firefox, kmail, even gimp without problems,
gimp came up, though I haven't a clue how to use it (yet


My Xmingrc is now:

# Xming Server Resource File
TRAYICON ",101"
menu sempro {
konsole exec "f:\bin\PuTTY\plink -load sempro konsole --ls"
ethereal exec "f:\bin\PuTTY\plink -load sempro ethereal"
kcontrol exec "f:\bin\PuTTY\plink -load sempro kcontrol"
kcalc exec "f:\bin\PuTTY\plink -load sempro kcalc"
xeyes exec "f:\bin\PuTTY\plink -load sempro xeyes"
}
menu localhost {
// Access control commands
"access status" execd "f:\bin\xapps\xhost.bat"
"access any" exec "f:\bin\xapps\xhost -"
"access off" exec "f:\bin\xapps\xhost +"
"access sempro" exec "f:\bin\xapps\x_sempro.bat"
separator
"oclock" exec "f:\bin\xapps\oclock -display %display%"
"xeyes" exec "f:\bin\xapps\xeyes -display %display%"
}
menu apps {
//"remote@peetoo" menu peetoo
"remote@sempro" menu sempro
"local@magpie" menu localhost
separator
"&Reload Xmingrc" reload
separator
}
menu aot {
"&Always on Top" alwaysontop
separator
}
RootMenu apps
DefaultSysMenu aot atstart
SilentExit
DEBUG "Done parsing the configuration file..."

But the 'menu sempro' items do nothing, no error, nada, doesn't matter since
I can launch apps from the xterm. But is now the last 'unknown' . . . ??

Grant.
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:53:05 +1000, Grant wrote:

> My Xmingrc is now:
....
menu localhost {
// Access control commands
"access sempro" exec "f:\bin\xapps\x_sempro.bat"
separator
"access status" execd "f:\bin\xapps\xhost.bat"
"access auth" exec "f:\bin\xapps\xhost -" // nonsense?
"access any" exec "f:\bin\xapps\xhost +" // ditto?
separator
// local X apps
"oclock" exec "f:\bin\xapps\oclock -display %display%"
"xeyes" exec "f:\bin\xapps\xeyes -display %display%"
}
....
This from pan running on sempro client, magpie server Because I can,
responsiveness is much like a 'doze app. What I was after, running X
apps on 'doze so I transition slowly to sans 'doze ) Me happy!

Grant.