runing x apps exported

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Tue Oct 24 00:32:33 UTC 2006


Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Llu, 2006-10-23 am 14:17 -0400, ysgrifennodd Ashwin Bihari:
>>         Shouldn't 'apt-get install xterm' install whatever is needed
>>         so I can run xterm 
>>         on an exported display?
> 
> How X is packaged is up to your distribution so this is an Unbuntu
> question. Ubuntu is however no different to most other distributions in
> that the stuff ssh requires for remote X is not automatically sucked in
> as it creates all sorts of dependancies that make building small systems
> hard.
> 

Thanks Alan - that is exactly what I needed to know: things are functioning as 
expected and I should not go posting needless bug reports.

Carl K




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