gedit vs ssh -Y

[Colin Law]

On 3 February 2013 15:02, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> ...
> Bingo!  Somehow, two of the files there were owned by root.  Now it works,
> but when I gave that shell a ctrl-d to logout, it froze and has not
> returned my prompt.  I had to start another ssh -Y session from another
> shell to check to see if it worked.  ISTR that was another problem I had
> with the ssh -X session.  Dates back to many previous installs.  It will
> take a reboot of the target machine to fix that.

I get that (terminal hanging on logout) when I run certain apps.  I
find that if I Ctrl+C it closes it ok.

> Thanks Colin, your google fu hit the answer. :)

Glad to be of help.  I don't actually know much, it is mostly bluff, I
get most of my answers from google :)
That may sometimes be obvious to those that know much more than me.

Colin