RE: Remote X via SSH RH9 to RH9 problems -

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Haxby [mailto:jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 7:20 PM
> 
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> >If you want to use the remote connection's X server, I guess you have
> >to export the display or something. An area which I'm not 
> too familiar
> >with. 
> >  
> >
> You're confusing yourself here.  X clients (e.g. mozilla, the KDE or 
> Gnome window manager, xsetroot, xdpyinfo) talk to an X server over a 
> network connection (e.g. TCP, unix domain socket, shared 
> memory) and the 
> X server interacts with the graphics hardware.  Computers 
> with screens 
> run an X server.    An application must be given permission 
> to connect 
> to an X server to display itself and this is typically done 
> though the 
> xauth mechanism and ssh looks after all that for you when you set 
> "ForwardX11" in the right place.
> 
> You'd be doing yourself a huge favour by finding out how X 
> works.   And 
> you might be rather surprised as well.
> 

I just did the other day.. and guess what.. I Love it..

just running ssh -X -l user server
# mozilla &

works like a charm..


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