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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by ajsnigrutin on Sunday October 25, 2020 @11:39AM (#24887076)
> It's also rather complicated to set-up on the server side (xauth, magic cookie, etc).

you mean "ssh -Y user@host..."?

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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by MayeulC on Sunday October 25, 2020 @02:17PM (#24888539)
No, that is the client side. I went back and looked at the documentation, I was wrong and conflated two ways of doing it:

- X forwarding over SSH: this only requires changing X11Forwarding in OpenSSH sshd's config

- Plain X over network, which is secured with `xhost`, insecure, and needs transfering the magic cookie or other authentication information

So, not nearly as complex to setup as I recalled, though it's much simpler to run a nested wayland compositor (which waypipe does) than a X11 server (which xpra does). The difference between X11 and Wayland remote access thins when xpra is involved.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37157097/how-does-x11-au...

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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by bromonkey on Sunday October 25, 2020 @02:18PM (#24888545)
that would be the client side
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