Xorg XFree86 compatibility issues.

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:47:01PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> My primary activity at home is on a machine "alpha" running FBSD 
> 5.4 and Xorg version of X. But I have a couple of other machines 
> running older systems FBSD 4.9, "beta" and RedHat linux, "linux" 
> both running XFree86.
> 
> I can ssh into both these from "alpha" and run a number ofcommon 
> X processes without apparent difficulty. EG:
> alpha:200> ssh -X -f beta xterm
> ,
> alpha:201> -X -f linux xterm
> or
> alpha:202> -X -f beta xv
> 
> But others fall over. EG:
> alpha:203> ssh -X -f beta xfig
> alpha:204> X Error of failed request:  BadAccess (attempt to 
> access private resource denied)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  102 (X_ChangeKeyboardControl)
>   Serial number of failed request:  303
>   Current serial number in output stream:  304

You want ssh -Y, not ssh -X.  This is not an Xorg/Xfree86 issue, but a
new OpenSSH/old OpenSSH change.

Kris
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