From: Martin Mares Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:09:41 +0000 (+0200) Subject: README: Add warning about ssh -Y X-Git-Url: http://mj.ucw.cz/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2f655e732673e1b27b04a1753107c12b9133d6dd;p=osdd.git README: Add warning about ssh -Y --- diff --git a/README b/README index 4e19316..0f33f48 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ OSDD is a simple daemon whose purpose is to wait for messages sent by other programs and display them on the screen using libxosd. Unlike other such daemons, it handles message attributes (like colors), keeps its eye on message timing and uses X properties to pass messages, so it works over SSH -connections with X forwarding. +connections with X forwarding (however, you need to use "ssh -Y" instead of +"ssh -X" with newer versions of OpenSSH). I have developed osdd on Linux, but it should work on any recent POSIX-compliant system equipped with libX11 and libxosd.