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Local X apps on remote Xserver
Name: Six Date: March 27, 2004 at 11:10:05 Pacific OS: Slackware/BSD CPU/Ram: 1.3ghz, 450 p3
Comment:
Here's my setup. I have an openbsd box as an XDMCP server, and a Slackware Linux box displaying the remote openbsd's X display on the slack box. I want to know if/how I can get local (slackware) X programs to display on the X display. I want to do this so I can run BSD programs and Linux programs on the same X display.
Name: Wolfbone Date: April 2, 2004 at 22:16:21 Pacific
Reply:
I'm a little confused as to which box is which here! I'd just say it's very easy to do this with ssh: Just run an sshd server on the box without the video card you want the display on and 'ssh -X' in to it from an xterm on the box with the video card you want the display on. Provided you've set up the sshd config to allow X forwarding you can just run x apps on the remote box that you've ssh'd into and they'll display on the local box.
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