Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 20:36:47 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Charlie Root <root@gilbertr.npt.nuwc.navy.mil> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950120202831.16823B-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199501201729.RAA00250@gilbertr.npt.nuwc.navy.mil>
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On Fri, 20 Jan 1995, Charlie Root wrote: > subject: remote X-Windows > > Hi! > I have seen eXodus, Xodus, or whatever the name, software which > I believe allows the Apple Computers to launch Xwindows applications > and of course observe them remotely. What is required to do this > between two Unix machines (or more specifically FreeBSD to SUN) ? Nothing extra is needed at all. X uses the concept of a display, which is both the network name of the machine and a serial number for multiple display on one machine. On my machine n3lxx, the display is n3lxx:0.0. On n3lxx, if I want to open a display on my other machine, Journey2, I just use a command line switch to tell the application the name of the display to start itself on. First, I issue "xhost n3lxx" on Journey2, to tell the X server on Journey2 that I want to give n3lxx permission to use Journey2's local display. Then, to start an application (I'll use xterm, as a simple and common example here) on n3lxx I issue "xterm -display Journey2:0.0", and a new xterm shows up on the Journey2 machine's display. None of this is extra, it's all part of the standard X capabilities. > > Thanks > > Bob Gilbert GILBERTR@WPN.NPT.NUWC.NAVY.MIL > and sometimes root@gilbertr.npt.nuwc.navy.mil > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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