On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:14 +1200, Neil Stockbridge wrote: > > Rather than buy anything I grabbed one of the junk PC's I've acquired > > and set it up with enough for it to connect to X. I was wondering if > > does this mean the junk PC has the X libraries installed along with some > X clients and that you run applications by shelling into the junk PC > from the everyday PC then exporting $DISPLAY to your everyday PC before > running X applications, which then run on the junk PC even though their > windows appear on the everyday PC?
Ah nope sorry. I start up the junk PC and on that run either X -query 192.168.0.<whatever> or X -broadcast depending on how lucky I'm feeling. > > there is a way to use the local CDROM rather than the one on my everyday > > PC? Also is there a way to run synaptic locally as well? > > assuming you're doing the above, any X applications (including synaptic) > that run on the junk PC will -only- see the CDROM installed in the junk > PC. when synaptic is run on the junk PC, it will -only- manage packages > on the junk PC even though it's user interface appears on the screen of > the everyday PC. What you thought I was doing may be worth looking into! Thanks. :) > sorry if i've missed the point. That's ok you've given me some new (possibly better) ideas. --Slosh
