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Grant wrote: |
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> I just enabled X-forwarding and I've got a few questions for you guys. |
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> Should I have any security concerns about doing this? |
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Not more than usual. I assume your online computers have been secured |
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(to a reasonable degree)... Of course if anyone has access to your |
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remote machine (that you run X apps on) they could theoretically |
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"listen" in on your X session (man xauth for details). |
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> It looks like gimp comes through with an older/blockier version of gtk |
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> or something. Any way to fix that? |
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Well, gimp is using local resources on the machine you run it on. So |
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it's using whatever version of gtk that is installed on your remote |
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machine. Is it the fonts that are "blocky"? If so it may be an DPI issue ... |
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> I'm starting X-forwarding like 'ssh -XC 192.168.100.1 gimp' and when I |
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> close gimp it looks like the terminal is still running the process. |
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> Is it supposed to come back to the prompt? |
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Hm... yes, if you are starting gimp that way it may be that ssh doesn't |
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recognise that gimp is closed so it maintains the connection. Have you |
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tried to log in with ssh -X and run it from there instead? Btw, the -C |
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option is unnecessary unless you are using a very slow connection. |
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Best regards |
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Peter K |
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