ssh X11 forwarding issue
- by bbuser
I have put ForwardX11 in my ~/.ssh/config and then I start a X11 application like this:
ssh -f user@host 'someapp; sleep 1'
This works fine.
The application someapp has a button which opens a viewer application via a shell script viewer.sh. When I press the button the viewer comes up.
This is all good and as expected, but if I do
ssh -2 -f user@host 'someapp; sleep 1'
there's trouble.
someapp starts very well, but if I click the button the viewer doesn't show up.
As the viewer is called via a shell script, I replaced the call with xclock and the situation was exactly the same - I think the viewer is not to blame.
The situation is the same on Linux and AIX.
The reason I need -2 is that I finally want to use connection multiplexing
and this does only work with version 2. The reason for the sleep 1 is that it didn't work otherwise;-)
To add more confusion, with
ssh -2 -f user@host 'xterm &; app; sleep 1'
the viewer works as long as the xterm is open.
When I close xterm ssh -v outputs the following
debug1: channel 1: FORCE input drain
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 3
debug1: channel 1: free: x11, nchannels 2
and from that moment the viewer doesn't show when I press the button.
I also replaced the viewer application with a script that writes the
$DISPLAY variable to a file. The variable is always set correctly.
