Re: Is there anything missing when forwarding my X11 connections?

2025-02-10 Thread Christophe Lohr
Le 09/02/2025 à 20:26, Carsten Haitzler a écrit : using mit-shm is entirely a choice by the x client itself. invariably the right thing to do is try use the mit-shm extension - set up a xshmimage ansds then try xshmattach and see if you get an error. if you do - it's not going to work (not local)

Re: Is there anything missing when forwarding my X11 connections?

2025-02-10 Thread Christophe Lohr
Le 09/02/2025 à 22:08, Vladimir Dergachev a écrit : This reminds me of the difference between ssh -X and ssh -Y options, maybe a look at ssh code will give you ideas. Indeed, ssh has several tricks to make the X11 forwarding with some restrictions between -X and -Y  "... too many programs

Re: Is there anything missing when forwarding my X11 connections?

2025-02-10 Thread Christophe Lohr
Le 09/02/2025 à 20:26, Carsten Haitzler a écrit : using mit-shm is entirely a choice by the x client itself. invariably the right thing to do is try use the mit-shm extension - set up a xshmimage ansds then try xshmattach and see if you get an error. If I guess correctly what's happening with my

Re: Is there anything missing when forwarding my X11 connections?

2025-02-10 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:47:01 +0100 Christophe Lohr said: > Le 09/02/2025 à 20:26, Carsten Haitzler a écrit : > > using mit-shm is entirely a choice by the x client itself. invariably the > > right thing to do is try use the mit-shm extension - set up a xshmimage > > ansds then try xshmattach and

Re: Is there anything missing when forwarding my X11 connections?

2025-02-10 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:02:40 +0100 Christophe Lohr said: > Le 09/02/2025 à 20:26, Carsten Haitzler a écrit : > > using mit-shm is entirely a choice by the x client itself. invariably the > > right thing to do is try use the mit-shm extension - set up a xshmimage > > ansds then try xshmattach and

Re: Is there anything missing when forwarding my X11 connections?

2025-02-10 Thread Grant Taylor
On 2/7/25 07:38, Christophe Lohr wrote: Then I can use it:   $ DISPLAY=localhost:1 xeyes Try exporting the DISPLAY environment variable. I've run into programs that do things that work with the variable exported but don't work when it's not exported. -- Grant. . . .

Re: Is there anything missing when forwarding my X11 connections?

2025-02-10 Thread Christophe Lohr
Le 10/02/2025 à 11:19, Carsten Haitzler a écrit : If I guess correctly what's happening with my test: X clients never get this error, and so they wait. Is that it? they should... strace would be the next port of call - but i shall assume they are sitting in select/epoll waiting on something. f