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
ill wonder why in my tests X clients get stuck waiting for the server. Best regards Christophe On Fri, 7 Feb 2025, Christophe Lohr wrote: Hello,   Please excuse the naivety of my question; I'm trying to understand how things work. I try to forward a tcp X11 connection to the serve

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 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

Is there anything missing when forwarding my X11 connections?

2025-02-09 Thread Christophe Lohr
Hello, Please excuse the naivety of my question; I'm trying to understand how things work. I try to forward a tcp X11 connection to the server's unix socket:   $ socat TCP-LISTEN:6001,fork UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/.X11-unix/X0 Then I can use it:   $ DISPLAY=localhost:1 xeyes It works well... but onl