On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 18:50 +0100, David Kovalsky wrote: > Dario Lesca wrote: > > Hi! ... from a gnome-terminal if I run "xterm &" the xterm is open on > > current desktop; it's possible open it on another desktop? > > > > Many thanks > > > `xterm -display $DISPLAY' > > could be what you are looking for > > The other desktop has to allow you to connect to the X server controlling the other desktop. Please see "man xhost" They changed the syntax for the host names, which confuses me. On the other desktop, I would do "xhost +", but only for debugging purposes to first see you can get your xterm appearing on the other desktop. Doing "xhost +" in general might be a security risk.... Eventually, I would suggest "xhost username@yourhostname", caution: I have not had an occasion to try the above xhost command! I do the following xhost command so root programs that want to access a desktop can access my user desktop for when I do "su -" to root and do things: "xhost SI:localuser:root" I would have suggested doing "man X" to learn about the format of the DISPLAY variable...but "man X" does not work. "man Xserver" tells one to look at "man 7 X" and "man 7 X" does not work for me. I must need to install some rpm or something. I would try the following xterm command: xterm -display otherhostname:0.0
