> Chris Davies wrote: >> Ssh is usually (almost always, by default) configured to carry the >> display across the connection transparently,
Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Never by default. Yes. My mistake, sorry. It's one of the things I change so early on - along with setting up certificate based logins - that I forget it's not automatically enabled. > Agreed. But the natural follow-on to this would be to use the DISPLAY > to set to a remote display such as: > DISPLAY=otherhost.example.com:0 vlc *.WAV > And that will run into the issue that by default X Window servers > these days no longer listen to the network for connections. Agreed. Fortunately ssh has options to transport the DISPLAY across the encrypted session, and mostly "it all just works". Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/dkfdr9x4io....@news.roaima.co.uk
