Tunneling of remote X11 output to a local machine behind a firewall (ssh, X11, ForwardX11)

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

If X11 forwarding is globally disallowed in your local machine, you need to override this by editing ~/.ssh/config: Host hostname.domain.org ForwardX11 yes Then you just ssh into the remote machine hostname.domain.org: ssh -X username@hostname.domain.org And execute some program that outputs to X11, e.g.: xclock &

Wheel Mouse trouble with Suse Linux 9.2 (SaX2, xorg.conf, explorerps/2, ZAxisMapping)

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I wanted to activate the wheen of my USB mouse, but everytime I went to Yast2 > Hardware > Mouse the X server crashed and threw me into a text console. Also using SaX2 didn’t work (there is a button under Input devices > Properties > Activate mouse wheel). Funnily the wheel usind to work in 9.1. Finally I modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf: diff xorg.conf xorg.old Option "Name" "USB-Mouse;PS/2 on USB" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" The important line Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" was already present. If isn’t you need to add it to activate the wheel.

X11 on Michael’s Domain

Tunneling of remote X11 output to a local machine behind a firewall (ssh, X11, ForwardX11)

Wheel Mouse trouble with Suse Linux 9.2 (SaX2, xorg.conf, explorerps/2, ZAxisMapping)