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Black icon backgrounds when using ssh -X to run remote GTK application

I run a number of applications remotely from a RHEL 6 server. I have managed to get the themes of the GTK applications to work correctly by editing the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file and including the line: ...
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sshfs with x forwarding?

I've been using sshfs to mount directories from servers on my laptop. I also have the following in my ~/.ssh/config: ControlMaster auto I set this because it keeps a single ssh connection alive ...
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ssh with x11 forwarding: does not work from outside network

I have a laptop and a server. On the same lan network, I can ssh with X11 forwarding to the server via: ssh -Y -C username@internal.ip When I execute anything that opens an x11 window, things work. ...
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SSH with X11 forwarding to host where I don't have a home-dir

I am trying to ssh with X11 forwarding into a host where I don't have a home directory. Because of that, xauth fails and X11 doesn't seem to work. I tried to specify a home-directory in advance but I ...
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Showing X-Forwarded window on current machine for mac

If I ssh into a server using ssh -X unixserver.com, I can run a command which opens a graphical application and the window will show on my current computer. I want the same to happen when I ssh into ...
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How to resume disconnected SSH X11-forwarded applications?

I am happily using SSH's X11-forwarding to run some applications and then the connection was disconnected. Running ps ax from a new SSH connection shows that the applications are still running. How ...
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X11 forwarding over chained ssh connections

Imagine I have a box (A) and ssh access to it and want to run a programm and forward its x11 output to xMing. That works just fine with putty. Now things get more complicated. There is another box ...
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Remotely connecting to Ubuntu server from a Macbook: can't run PyMol

My lab runs a Ubuntu cluster, and in general I interact with it on my personal Macbook using SSH. Recently I've been going beyond the command line and have been experimenting with getting graphical ...
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Tunnelling X11 through an SSH gateway with no X11 install [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Skip over intermediate server via SSH At my university we have an SSH gateway for remote access to our departmental Linux network. The gateway itself has a very minimal ...
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Window forwarding to laptop from workstation

At home I have my desktop computer and loads of open windows. When I decide to work outside or in another room with my laptop. I'd like to select a few windows and just make them appear on the laptop. ...
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SSH X Tunnel via non-X server

strange variation on the standard 'multi-hop tunnel' question. I'm working remotely at the minute, but have several 'incoming' automatic reverse shells connecting to a dedicated server. This ...
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SSH X11 Forwarding and Graphical Application Loading

The Symptoms are as follows. If an application creates a new window, the window will take ages to load. The host machine has a leased line and I have 1.4 MB (Bytes not bits) up and downstream from ...
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ssh xauth error Mac OS 10.6.3

Whenever I ssh with X11 forwarding to a remote box from my macbook I get the following error after a few seconds pause: Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated ...
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Xforwarding doesn't allow for switching users

I'm ssh'd into a remote computer and xforwarding is working fine... but as soon as I "sudo su -" or "sudo su user2" it no longer Xforwards anything giving me the error: X11 connection rejected ...
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Xforwarding in Ubuntu

I'm trying to get Xforwarding working in Ubuntu... On the server I have uncommented the following lines of /etc/ssh/sshd_config: X11Forwarding yes AllowTcpForwarding yes Now I try to ssh in, but I ...
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xauth error with ssh X Forwarding

From my (Debian) Desktop machine, I am trying to ssh into a Debian Server with ssh -X remote-ip After logging into the remote host, I get: /usr/bin/X11/xauth: creating new authority file ...
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How to use X11 forwarding with putty

I have a VM with RHEL 5 without an X server. My host has Windows 7. I need to connect to the VM and redirect the X11 output of the commands to my host. I know that if my host were a GNU/Linux ...
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When you use X forwarding to run an application on another computer, which processor does it use?

If I use ssh -X to run an application from Computer A on the screen of Computer B, how are the computation and resources divided up between the two computer's processors? Sometimes the audio will ...