Re: pasting into emacs over ssh -X

[Gordon Beaton]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:59:55 -0400, Ryan Moszynski wrote:
> i use emacs in X mode using ssh -X, and I can't past into/out of
> emacs.  I use FC4/gnome.  I also have a user that uses secureCRT in
> windows and uses something like -X, and he has the same problem.

The behaviour of X forwarding changed in OpenSSH 3.8.

You can get the old behaviour in one of the following ways:

- use "ssh -Y" instead

- specify "ForwardX11Trusted yes" in addition to "ForwardX11 yes" in
  either ~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh/ssh_config (i.e. on the client
  host)

/gordon

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