From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 0:29:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-227.telepath.com [216.14.0.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB5D937B423 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:29:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 70448 invoked by uid 100); 22 Sep 2000 07:29:06 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14795.2623.722649.567413@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 02:29:03 -0500 (CDT) To: "Isaac Waldron" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11 Sessions over Network In-Reply-To: <106652069@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Isaac Waldron writes: > This probably isn't the right list to ask, but I can't think of another > place to ask it. My desktop is running FreeBSD 4.1 Stable from late last > week, and I already have XFree-3.3.6 installed and setup. My university has > Maple installed on their servers. Is there a way I can use my machine as an > X terminal to one of their servers so that I can run Maple from my desktop > without going to a lab? That depends. If maple is an X application, and you have an account you can connect to (via ssh, telnet, rlogin, or something similar) on the servers, then the answer is yes. Just set the environment variable DISPLAY back to the machine you are sitting at, and then run Maple. Done. Note that it's not at all unusual for ssh to be configured to set the DISPLAY variable for you automatically.