Re: Restore Alt-Ctl-Backspace As Server Kill

[Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware dot com>]

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> I don't use it, but "startfluxbox" sounds like something that kicks of
> fluxbox and then exits (vs xterm which stays around).   Could that be
> the problem?

Likely true.

> 
> Also, if you're using ssh, why not use ssh forwarding instead of
> sending the X traffic back over a separate, unencrypted connection?
> And you don't need to logout explicitly; terminating the shell does
> the same thing.
> 
> ssh -Y user@machine startfluxbox
> 
> you might try
> 
> ssh -nY user@machine startfluxbox
> 
> to prevent standard input from causing a problem...

D'oh.  That *is* a much better way to do this.  I shall look into
this as I am able ...

Thanks!


> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>  ssh user@machine "export DISPLAY=mymachine:9;xterm;logout"
>>
>> But both of these have the problem:
>>
>>  ssh user@machine "export DISPLAY=mymachine:9;startfluxbox;logout"
>>  ssh user@machine "export DISPLAY=mymachine:9;exec startfluxbox;logout"
>>
>>
>> Now the "Narrowing It Down" and "Really Strange" part.  This works
>> just fine:
>>
>>  ssh user@machine "export DISPLAY=mymachine:9;exec fluxbox;logout"
>>
>> It seems that something (I have not figured out just what yet)
>> about the default fluxbox startup script (on FreeBSD 6-STABLE in this
>> case) is interacting with the cygwin X server and killing it.
>>
>> Oiy, my head ...
> 


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