On Tuesday 18 November 2008 10:00:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Monday 17 November 2008 10:00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > am <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > > Not a trivial question :-) and not as simple as -X .... > > > > I'm sitting in front of THIS machine, and logged in > > I run a program on this machine, say xeyes or xmsg > > I want the display of that program on THAT machine > > x programs look at the current environment to find out the X display to > display to, set DISPLAY=<host>:<MajourScreen#>.<MinorScreen#> - you will > have to get around firewalls and Xauth as well.
Thanks Alex nope ! this is *really* a non trivial question. the DISPLAY=THAT works only if TCP/IP forwarding is enabled, which it is NOT on modern distros [<quote> It is unlikely that something as complicated as xorg does not have exploits </quote>} What I'm trying to achieve is the above using ssh which can be done [see LTSP's LDM] but zot-in-hell I cannot fathom out what and how they do it! Using TCP/IP then discovering that in a year or two that this has been removed is the reason for me not doing it. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
