[Info-vax] Decwindows display

Bradford Hamilton hamilton at news.individual.net
Sat Mar 21 17:49:34 EDT 2009


In article <000ddaa1$0$2138$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei wrote:
>Bradford Hamilton wrote:
>
>> Sorry for not including more explicit information - running X from Mac OS X to
>> VMS, via ssh (ssh -x <node name>).
>
>
>Ahhh ! This is a totally different ballgame then !
>
>Note that on OS-X:
>
>     -X      Enables X11 forwarding.  This can also be specified on a
>per-host
>             basis in a configuration file.
>
>
>     -x      Disables X11 forwarding.
>
>
>so you really want ssh -X

Yup.  Of course, it makes me wonder why "-x" exists.  Isn't that the "default"
behavior for ssh?



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