[solved!] Tunneling X over OpenSSH ... some problems

synthead · 2008-02-03 04:10:07

So I want to tunnel X programs thorugh OpenSSH. On the server, I went into the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and modified it to read X11Forwarding yes. I restarted the sshd server. Then on the client side, I logged in via ssh -XCl [user] [ip] and it brought up an SSH window, but when I tried to start an X program ...

[jenna@jennaluv ~]$ mousepad
The program 'mousepad' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 1 error_code 9 request_code 55 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

What did I do wrong?

Last edited by synthead (2008-02-03 06:50:35)

pyther · 2008-02-03 04:46:18

try running ssh yourhost -Y

for whatever reason I can't get the -X option to work

synthead · 2008-02-03 05:31:53

YES! That worked! Now it's time to read the manpage so I can find out why that did it

dav7 · 2008-02-08 02:32:02

Man.

I feel sooo stupid. lol

I spent all night getting tun/tap working, and trying literally every ssh option I knew of (which just so happened to not include -Y). I kept getting synthead's error regardless. and now, of course, it works.

This isn't the first time I go down the most complex path possible, only to find it won't work...

-dav7

Arch Linux

#1 2008-02-03 04:10:07

[solved!] Tunneling X over OpenSSH ... some problems

#2 2008-02-03 04:46:18

Re: [solved!] Tunneling X over OpenSSH ... some problems

#3 2008-02-03 05:31:53

Re: [solved!] Tunneling X over OpenSSH ... some problems

#4 2008-02-08 02:32:02

Re: [solved!] Tunneling X over OpenSSH ... some problems

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