Re: problems with bonobo components and ssh X11 forwarding

[Jaka Mocnik <jaka activetools si>]

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 09:57, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Jaka,
> 
> On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 08:35, Jaka Mocnik wrote:
> > X definitely does not need to know about ssh: display is exported via
> > the ssh tunnel as DISPLAY=localhost:10.0 clearly shows on the other end
> > of that tunnel an X server waits... other apps that don't use
> > out-of-proc bonobo components (like ghex2) work just fine.
> 
> 	Ah; I've just thought - what you need to do is see:
> 
> 	eel/eel-gnome-extensions.c (eel_bonobo_make_registration_id) - it's
> possible that you're not doing a per display registration. The way this
> is currently done sucks great rocks - so I'm hoping to have time to fix
> it in 2.2.
thanks, I'll look into it.

just for the record: it's very much possible that most components are
not doing this which effectively disables them from being used on a
remote display. eog certainly doesn't.

regards,
	jaKa

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