On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:14:47PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > If you want to run X apps remotely, ie the app runs on your server but the > > window appears on your desktop, then you need to run X on your server (may > > already be doing that), ssh into it with X forwarding (putty config to turn > > on x11 forwarding), and run and X server locally (eg hummingbird, xming). > > Now you can run xterm from your putty session and it will appear on your > > local desktop. > > Andy, you're right on the money I think. Except for one little detail: > you don't need to "run X on your server" (that's only needed if you > want to run things on your server's display).
You're right, assuming that the "server" is the machine he wants to run his program on that will display on his terminal. This is common parlance. Technically, though, for the X protocol, the "server" is the machine he wants the windows to appear on -- the running program is the client, and it initiates an X connectino to its server, the screen, which serves the program, its client, bu displaying its data. This is logical terminaology, though it seems backwards, but if you start looking through official X documentation, you'll be rathre confused unless you realise this. The program may be serving you, but the screen is serving the program. As Dylan once wrote, you gotta serve somebody. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
