On 2006-04-24 18:53:25 +0200, Romain Francoise wrote: > Yeah, so the problem is that SSH uses untrusted cookies for X11 > forwarding by default, and Emacs needs full access to the X server.
OK. What is strange is that Emacs was working on April 17... well, not completely: I could use Emacs, but copy-paste didn't work; this seems to be solved by trusted X11 forwarding. > This is documented in the OpenSSH FAQ: > > <URL: http://openssh.org/faq.html#3.13> > > So there is no bug in Emacs. In fact there's one, it is that X protocol > errors cause a crash when Emacs is compiled with GTK+ widgets, instead > of a polite X error. In addition to a polite X error, it could also give some hints about the problem (e.g. trusted X11 forwarding is needed), in particular if SSH_CONNECTION is defined. > But this is a known bug. Do you have a reference for this known bug? > If you agree, I'll just close this bug, then. Yes. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
