Is it possible to do X forwarding over bluetooth?

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Mon Sep 13 21:54:36 PDT 2010


Han wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to do X forwarding over bluetooth connection. I tried with
> using SSH X forwarding over bluetooth PAN.  It worked but it's slow
> and complex to setup. I am wondering:  does X forwarding require IP
> network address?  Is it possible to do X forwarding directly over
> bluetooth?

I don't know about the ssh implementation, but the X protocol just
requires some sort of network protocol, and has in the past been
implemented over DECnet, IPv4, and IPv6 at least (and I think a
few rare experimental protocols).   Adding support for a new network
protocol type is not a trivial task however, including adding support
to the protocol for the address format if you expect xhost +hostname
to work.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System




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