From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 17 18:52:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 900BC37B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:52:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D038143E4A for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:52:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmmills@telocity.com) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA10153; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:56:27 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:56:27 -0500 (EST) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: Rotaru Razvan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: remote X In-Reply-To: <20021116011939.45738.qmail@web11208.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rotaru - On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Rotaru Razvan wrote: > Is it possible to use the local X11 Server for remote applications? For > instance via ssh. I have my XWindows started, i log myself in via ssh > on a remote host, and I want to run a graphical application on the > remote host. Or is it possible the other way (a local application on a > remote server)? Or is there any other way I can run a graphical > application on a remote host that i am logged on via ssh? I expect it depends on your SSH client, but on my systems you open a console session on the local X-server, invoke 'ssh -X' and then whatever remote X-windows application to project its display back to your host: % ssh bozo@circus.org -X [... login dialog ...] % emacs & % [another session is opened on my screen running 'emacs', and since I "backgrounded" the remote app, the console remains live for further commands. Check 'man ssh'. Depending on what type of X authorization you use, you may have to put the remote login on a list of permitted users of your local display (xauth or whatever). - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message