Matt Stegman wrote:
> It's quite simple, really. The environment variable DISPLAY is checked by
> all X clients, and they send output to the host/display indicated by that
> variable. If you use SSH (from UNIX to UNIX) then most SSH servers will
> set that variable automatically and forward X connections for you, no
> configuration needed. OpenSSH (used by Mandrake since 7.0) doesn't do
> this initially; you'll need to set it up yourself.
Normally if you turn on X11 forwarding at the server and requests it
at the client OpenSSH sets the DISPLAY variable and forwards X
connections over the encryted channel. Does Mandrake's version of
OpenSSH disable this feature?
