X11 forwarding over ssh with FC3 onward

[STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT)]

> 
> On Monday 23 Jan 2006 21:08, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> > Tony Dietrich wrote:
> > > I'm in the process of installing FC3 after leaving RH9.
> > >
> > > I'm used to enabling X11 over ssh with RH9, but making 
> the same changes
> > > to FC3 get me errors ...
> > >
> > > Unable to open Display#
> > >
> > > or similar.
> > >
> > >
> > > Anyone please point me in the right direction?  Whats 
> changed with FC3?
> >
> > Try ssh -Y instead of ssh -X.

If forwarding X11 is normal for you, you can put

ForwardX11  yes
ForwardX11Trusted  yes

in your $HOME/.ssh/config file.
Some revisions of ssh need the ForwardX11Trusted  and some complain
about it.  My FC3 machine has it on and my FC4 machine has it commented
out.

Bob Styma