On Monday 17 November 2008 06:10:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ask SLUG and you end up with 5 different ways of doing it.      :-)
>
> Thanks all. I should be able to get at least one of those working.
>
> Daniel,
>
> most common problem I come across doing it the remote X11 way is no
> display setup. And never sure which particular variable it is that the
> relevant appl. wants. Aside from that however, the wish to run the
> 'desktop' (a.k.a Window Manager - I guess) is so I can leave programs
> running, log in and check on their progress.

There are tantalizing hints in TBM but I've not made any work, so anyone ...

I'm logged into THIS machine and I want to run a program on THIS machine but 
display on THAT machine.

Thanks
James

PS using ssh, not disable access control and enable tcp/ip:
export DISPLAY=THAT.machine:0
THISprogram
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