From 2f655e732673e1b27b04a1753107c12b9133d6dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Mares Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:09:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README: Add warning about ssh -Y --- README | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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. -- 2.39.2