[mythtv-users] how do I run mythtv-setup in VNC

[Brian Wood]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 08/26/2008 05:42 AM, mat wrote:
>>> My frontend is running at 1080i and when I use VNC I run the
>>> mythtv-setup runs very slow and also as I'm running a virtual screen it
>>> is not correct for my VNC session.
>>>
>>> Q.1 So can I run the mythtv-setup with different screen-size than the TV
>>> out size? or "windowed" format independantly than the frontend window.
>>> Q2. why is it so slow from virtual desktop?
>> I setup my (headless) frontend using X over ssh, which is incredibly
>> simple to do and it appeared to size myth to fit my client machine:
>>
>> ssh -X name at boxIP
>>
>> then just run mythtv-setup!
>>
>> awesome.
> 
> You probably want ssh -Y.  You'll get errors with -X and you lose some 
> capability with -X.

Also, X forwarding has to be enabled in your sshd configuration file in
order for X forwarding to work.

beww