Hi Mark, Thank you for the quick reply and info
Mark K. Kim wrote: >On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:15:34PM -0800, John Wojnaroski wrote: > > > >>so after logging in via ssh, starting the program(s) is a no-brainer, >>but I'm puzzling over how to direct the output to a specific display. >>Most of what I've found browsing was how to use the export command to >>send display output to a remote client. >> >> > >Depends on the setup. Are you running one X session per monitor or one >for both (Xinerama)? Whatever the case, one of these should work: > There are four monitors and three graphics cards (all Nvidia) -- one is a dual headed AGP and two are single headed PCI. There is an X session for each card. The AGP is using the TwinView option. > export DISPLAY=<ip>:0.0 # 0.0 is first screen > xclock & > export DISPLAY=<ip>:0.1 # 0.1 is second screen > xclock & > > export DISPLAY=<ip>:0.0 # 0.0 is first screen > xclock & > export DISPLAY=<ip>:1.0 # 1.0 is second screen > xclock & > > xclock -geometry +0+0 & # +0+0 is top-left of screen > xclock -geometry -0+0 & # -0+0 is top-right of screen > >The last option is the least preferable setup because it forces the >application to open in the same spot all the time. The second option >works if you have one X session per monitor. The first option works if >you have one X session and X understands the notion of "screens", which >would be the most preferred setup. > > > I played with the export option a bit late last night as you noted above but nothing worked. OTH I was pretty tired.. I'll give it another go today. Do you have to do anything with the xhost list; something like "xhost +127.0.0.1" or "xhost "ip of remote machine"? Regards John W _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
