On Tuesday 06 July 2004 19.58, Steve Adams wrote:
Is it just me, or is X unbelievably complicated?
I'm trying to get a handle on remote X-apps, and while I understand it conceptually I find configuration to be very obscure, with documentation that's all over the place. Here's a humorous link that I can relate to:
http://pepper.idge.net/disaster.html
The O'Reilly X Window System Admin book was published in 1992 and allowed to go out of print. What's going on? Do people just use VNC, and call it good?
Exactly what is the problem? Remote X for me is a simple case of "ssh -X user@remotemachine". Nothing else needed, from a default suse setup. In 9.1, for various security reasons, the default is for X to not listen to tcp networking, so if you absolutely want to do that you have to enable it, but aside from that there is no configuration needed, assuming you have the local X server up and running. On the remote side, you only need to have X installed, nothing there needs to be configured at all