From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 7:42:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw01.execpc.com (mailgw01.execpc.com [169.207.2.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E3C37B558 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 07:42:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpoland@execpc.com) Received: from judah (d11.as5.appl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.124.139]) by mailgw01.execpc.com (8.9.1) id JAA11298; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:37:03 -0500 From: "Doug Poland" To: "Dimitri T." Cc: Subject: RE: X windows remotely? Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:37:03 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20000613131511.43256.qmail@hotmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > hi all, > > I was actually able of setting up an NIS-NFS (file-)server and it seems to > work fine. I can now login and run programs from a remote computer.. > > I thought it could be great if I was able to run X Windows remotely too.. I > tried it but.. it didn't work (of course).. > It starts that graphical grey screen but it immediately stops.. I understand > that it mixes remote and local stuff. I searched WWW for info on this > subject but had no luck :~( > If you're trying to run X apps remotely, then do the following... On the Xserver as root# xhost Xclient_machine_name Then, launch you X apps with the -display switch, i.e., Xserver% xeyes -display Xclient_machine_name:0 & To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message