howto: send the X commands to the X server on your host.

[Matt Johnston]

jn Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:20:27AM +0100, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
> does dbclient take a command similar to -X in ssh?
> to send the X commands to the X server on your host.
> 
> if not is there a workaround or plans to implement?

Not easily.  If the X server is listening on TCP (port 6000)
you could probably portforward back to that You'd have
to use "xauth" to set up authentication tokens too:

xauth list (gives you a token)
dbclient -R 6000:localhost:6000 remotehost

then on the remotehost:
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
xauth add <token goes here>

or something like that. Proper -X or -Y support could be
added to Dropbear though would probably need something like
the X11 proxy for xauth that OpenSSH has.

Matt