gedit vs ssh -Y

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 03 February 2013 04:44:10 Colin Law did opine:
Message additions Copyright Sunday 03 February 2013 by Gene Heskett

> On 3 February 2013 02:53, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > Greetings;
> > 
> > 10.04.4 LTS 32 bit installs on both ends of the wire,
> > 
> > ssh -Y as me has worked well in the past, but something has apparently
> > now killed it as far as my being able to run a gedit session of the
> > ssh -Y login.
> > 
> > The failure returns to the shell:
> > 
> > gene at shop:~/linuxcnc/nc_files$ gedit rack-clear.ngc
> > GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible
> > causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or
> > you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
> > http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1:
> > Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket
> > /tmp/dbus-7cJJt8ttk4: Connection refused)
> 
> Two questions, have you tried ssh -X,

Just did, same results.  Generally I've found the -Y seems to give me 
better access to the x stuffs, where -X seems to work only for text.

> and does gedit work if run
> directly at the remote server?

Yes.

> Also (ok three questions) have you tried ssh'ing into a different user
> at the remote machine?

No, there is only me and sudo on those machines.  And I just found that I 
can run it when sudo.  But sudo -i doesn't work because then I lose rights 
to the x server.
 
Thanks Colin

Cheers, Gene
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