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Re: [Debathena] #206: Define behavior around zwgc and remote X11
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:08:21 -0000
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#206: Define behavior around zwgc and remote X11 sessions------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
Reporter: jdreed | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Component: --
Keywords: |
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Comment(by xavid):
Replying to [comment:3 jdreed]:
> I'm not sure what you mean by "not taking advantage of X forwarding".
We don't enable X11 forwarding by default right? Users should still have
to type ssh -X (or -Y) if they want X forwarding, so I'm not sure when a
user would be connecting with X forwarding without knowing it.
It's always been my experience on Athena 9 that I get X forwarding even
when I don't explicitly request it. Maybe this is a change from Athena 9
to Athena 10, or maybe I messed up my dotfiles Freshman year (though I've
seen other people get X forwarding without expecting it in clusters, and I
don't see any obvious configuration of this in my dotfiles...)
> Fair enough, we can simply invert the description above and only run
zwgc in .login/.bash_login if $DISPLAY is set and the zephyr variable
"remotex11" is true. I think if $DISPLAY is not set (ie: a tty ssh
session), we should run zwgc regardless, because it won't have any effect
anyway unless the user has set fallback=true.
Sounds good to me. (Aside from implementation details, this is not
running zwgc by default in either case.)
-- Ticket URL: <http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/206#comment:4>Debathena <http://debathena.mit.edu/>MIT Debathena Project
