Re: problems with running remote X programs
Matthew Yee-King <yeeking@no-future.com> writes:
> I'm running gdm, windowmaker, woody and xfree 4.2. i need to run
> software on a remote mahcine that outputs to my local X server. On
> the remote machine, i export DISPLAY="mylocalIP:0" then on my local
> machine, i xhost <memote machineIP> .
Eew eew eew. Don't do that. Debian disables unencrypted X network
sessions. But since you're using ssh to log in from one machine to
the other (right?) this is easy: just add -X to the ssh command-line
arguments to get X forwarding over ssh, and the DISPLAY environment
variable will be automagically set to the right thing on the remote
machine.
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