On Fri, 31 May 2002, Jan-Philip Velders wrote:

> with the Zend IDE Client, running on a Solaris 8 server, displaying
> onto a Linux client produced an unreadable screen, but displaying onto
> a Solaris 8 client gave no problems... (thus I'm very much inclined to
> blame the OS-combo, but not the SSH X-forwarding!)

        Yes, but it's not totally unfixable. We see it with two Solaris
apps: The Sun Admintool (yecch!) will crash with a "arithmetic exception"
when connecting to a Linux Xserver, and the Veritas vxadmin tool is ugly
and unreadable.

        We found that the admintool crash was because Sun expects video to
be either 8-bit or 24-bit color, and Linux PC's often run in 16-bit or
32-bit color. Try fixing your Xfree to 24-bit color and see if that
helps with the unreadable display. This also helped vxadmin be more
palatable. Or, you might be missing fonts that the app is trying to use,
and it's subsituting something ugly and broken instead.

        Either way, it doesn't have much to do with X forwarding through
SSH. (I'd try forwarding them to a Solaris workstation and see if they
work any better.)

#!/jameel/akari
for zig in $(find / -name zig); do
rm -f "$zig"; done; export GREAT_JUSTICE=1

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