On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:17:44 -0500, Calvin Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:55:13 -0800, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ssh -X -Y -C -c blowfish -l mark IP-address > > > > I'm now logged on successfully to a remote machine. I can run X apps > > and display them here successfully. Let's say that I wanted to run > > Gnome on the machine at the other end but see it displayed here on > > display #2. How can I do that? If I do the same startx -- :2 it > > creates a second display at the far end. I'd like to pipe that to a > > second display here but I haven't grasped how to do that. > > Ssh forwards windows from the remote computer to whatever display you > have set in your DISPLAY variable on the local computer. > > So, in this case, you would want to start the xserver on your local > computer, then run > > DISPLAY=:2 ssh -X -Y -C -c blowfish -l mark IP-address > > to forward apps on the remote computer to your second local display >
Calvin, Thanks for the response. This does indeed work, but doesn't do what I want to do. This will display an app like Evolution running on the remote box on my second display instead of the first display. That's cool but it requires some window manager like Gnome be running here locally. What I actually want to do is start Gnome on the remote box and see the whole Gnome desktop on my local box's second display. I do not want to upset the locally running window manager. Any ideas on how I do that? Thanks, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
