[GNC] GNUCash never starts over forwarded X session

[Andrew Clark]

I ended up resizing a partition, installing Debian and now forwarding via
ssh to Xorg running on that works fine.

I guess there must be some issue with my windows setup and the Xming x
server.

On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 10:00, Andrew Clark <ajfclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've tried connecting using both putty and Bitvise SSH client to forward
> the X session. Both hang at the same point:
> [image: image.png]
>
> Xauth is installed on the machien running gnucash:
>
> aclark at discus 1 ~ $ dpkg -l xauth
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> |
> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
>
> +++-==============-============-============-=================================
> ii  xauth          1:1.0.10-1   amd64        X authentication utility
>
> I've tried running Xnest on the remote machine and then gnucash in that,
> but it still doesn't work.
>
> e.g.
>
> Xnest :10 &
> DISPLAY=:10.0 gnucash
>
> Hangs in the same place.
>
> Things like DISPLAY=10:.0 xeyes work though.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 02:57, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Andrew Clark <ajfclark at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Yes, when I'm home I use GNUCash on the machine and it works fine. I'm
>> only
>> > tryign to use the frowarded session because I'm away at the moment. I've
>> > previously done this and it worked fine.
>>
>> What X-forwarding method are you using?
>> It works for me using ssh -X
>> also ensure you have xauth installed (on the remote machine).
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> --
>>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>>        warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
>>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew.
>


-- 
Cheers,

Andrew.