On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Jonathan Kallay wrote: > My downstairs neighbor has a computer running Mac OS X, which as we all know > has a UNIX backend. For kicks, I started an X server, telnetted into his > machine, changed the DISPLAY variable to my display, and tried launching a > GUI application. The application did in fact launch, but on his screen, not > in my X server. Any ideas as to why this happened? > How did you change the DISPLAY variable? Did you forget to export it? Probably your X server will not allow apps on another machine to use your display (that is generally how X servers are set up).
It is much easier to run remote X applications using ssh, which will handle them automagically, but if you can't use ssh, there is a Remote-X-Apps-mini-HOWTO that covers the details of X security. If you have the howtos installed, it is probably on your machine, or you can look here: Remote X Apps mini-HOWTO: Introduction (p2 of 2) The most recent version of this document is always available on WWW at http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth.html. It is also available as the Linux Remote X Apps mini-HOWTO at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Remote-X-Apps. Linux (mini-)HOWTOs are available by http or ftp from sunsite.unc.edu. what was sunsite.unc.edu is now calling itself www.ibiblio.org (and ftp.ibiblio.org, BTW Lawson -- ---oops--- ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
