[mythtv-users] Installation of the backend without X

[Greg Farrell]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:19 +0000, Graham Wood wrote:
> The only reasons for using SSH (in this case) are if your X server on your
> client machine isn't listening for TCP connections on its external IP
> (some are configured to only listen on localhost, or not at all for
> network connections) or you have a firewall in the way blocking port 6000.
> 
> Since it increases the load on the boxes at each end (it's tunneling after
> all even if you don't use compression/encryption), and will also increase
> latency - you're better not using it if your connection is over a LAN.

SSH also has the handy -X and -Y options which automagically setup X
forwarding on that connection. So you don't need to do any xhost stuff,
exporting of DISPLAY or making your X server accept tcp connections.

It's useful for those reasons even on an internal lan.

  Greg