On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 17:00:09 -0400
Eben King <e...@gmx.us> wrote:
> > to run synaptic you would need to do this on the computer itself,
> > not remotely unless you are using a remote X or Wayland client like
> > VNC.
>
> So ssh is right out? That sucketh much. It's not all X clients that
> don't work, so what's the determinant for not working? Those that use
> root? GTK?
Not necessarily. I routinely ssh into all my computers, to their root
and user accounts, and then use GUI programs which display properly on
the machine from which I SSHed in. The trick is in setting up your
target computer's ~/.ssh/config correctly. E.g:
host dragon
Protocol 2
ForwardX11 yes
ForwardX11Trusted yes
and similarly for the target's /root/.ssh/config.
This may also involve setting up the target's /etc/ssh/sshd_config
correctly; I don't remember.
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