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Date:      Tue, 09 Feb 1999 06:24:05 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au>
To:        Mirror Beastie <rudi@askas.co.za>
Cc:        Andrzej Szydlo <andrzej@freebsd.org.pl>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: multiple networked X sessions 
Message-ID:  <19990208202405.14002.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <36BEA474.AFEEB731@askas.co.za>  of Mon, 08 Feb 1999 10:46:44 %2B0200

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> > 1. Start X on your FreeBSD box.
> > 2. Allow acces from the desired hosts to your x server on the FreeBSD
> >         "xhost + the_other_hostname_or_ip"
> > 3. Tell an X application on the other host to use your X server
> >         "export DISPLAY=your_freebsd_box:0"
> > 4. Start the application on the other host.
> 
> Ok - this i already know - this is just standard x stuff where you see the
> visual component of an application running elsewhere - what i want is
> something a little different - from my X Window Manager I want to launch a
> "window" that contains the entire window manager on another X enabled host. 
> For example i have 2 FBSD boxes, bith running X.  On box 1 I start X then I
> start another application / process that gives me my X display under box 2 -
> not just an application - the whole thing... kinda like a vistual telnet...
> snip...

Your terminology is a bit fuzzy here, so it's difficult to know
what you mean.  If you want to have the xdm (or equivalent) on
the other host run in a window on the first host, you can't do
that.  But why would you want it anyway?

You can rlogin (or better slogin) to the other host from an
xterm on the first host and run any applications you want.
Since your $DISPLAY gets exported to the second host, any X
applications you start there will use the display on your first
host automatically.

If that's not enough, you'll need to explain why and what it is
you want.  But don't be surprised if you can't do it.

-- 
Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>


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