> -----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.. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
