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odror

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Registered: 2015-03-17

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ssh with X forwarding from wayland to X11 works in reverse

I have a ssh server running Wayland and a client running X11

I am able to "ssh -Y remote-host"

But when running any gui application (after connecting) it presents itself on the remote server desktop. Not on the local desktop as it should.

I am sure that I am missing something.

if I prefix the command with GDK_BACKEND=x11 I get the same results.

seth

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Re: ssh with X forwarding from wayland to X11 works in reverse

Do they run as native wayland or xwayland clients?

Are those GTK clients tbw?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#GUI_libraries

printenv

in the ssh login, maybe you're unconditionally exporting st. like XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland? What's $DISPLAY ?

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Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: ssh with X forwarding from wayland to X11 works in reverse

Try running "env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY your_application_here". Unsetting WAYLAND_DISPLAY should make it fall back to X.