Veritas vea java swing window displaying incorrectly in a ssh X11Forwarded session

I connect to a Solaris server using ssh, and turning "ForwardX11 yes" in my ssh client, as well as "X11Forwarding yes" in my remote solaris server.
The X11 forwarding works fine, because i can exec and view remote solaris dtterms in my slackware machine.
The problem is with java swing apps, like Veritas vea, which, when run, is displayed, but in an incorrectly huge window size, and with some parts not well redrawn, to the point that it is unusable. Also affected is the WebSphere console...

This is an old bug:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4374153

Everyone basically tells you to set these variables on your shell before executing vea:
NO_AWT_MITSHM=true
NO_J2D_DGA=true
export NO_AWT_MITSHM;export NO_J2D_DGA

But i tried it to no avail. What solved the problem for me was adding a line to my /etc/ssh/ssh_config like this:
ForwardX11Trusted yes

after this everything worked fine!

Posted by rdircio

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