X11 over SSH not working?

[Viro]

The DISPLAY variable is so that you can use X11 from inside the Terminal.app or any other process that is launched outside of the xterm.

Never knew there was a difference between -X and -Y. What I usually do is also put -C in the command, to enable compression

[Sunnz]

I see...

BTW, does anyone know how might one run a small Windows Manager from Linux over ssh? Something similar to:
http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/XoverSSH/win32-X-4.jpeg

[lurk]

-Y is more secure than -X in general. As a result the OpenSSH guys have been really pushing it.

[billbaloney]

My understanding is that -Y is actually less secure, because it bypasses the X11-related security settings. -Y says, "Trust the remote server to have full access to my display."

Read the end of this thread for more information.

[lurk]

You are correct. In the original discussion of the shift to -Y I made the mistake that -Y was providing greater security, but rather they increased the security on -X (which often breaks things).

Mea culpa

[Sunnz]

So... anyone know how to run Window Managers like wmaker?

[macbri]

Hey Sunnz -- some time ago I posted instructions on how to do something like this. Only caveat is it's full-screen. Check out this thread. Hope that helps

[Sunnz]

Well, after fiddling around, I have found a much more elegant solution and I really like, running Xnest on the server side.

I simply log on to the remote machine by ssh -X me@remote, then with in that session, I run:

Xnest :1 & wmaker -display :1