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Re: Launching remote applications



Emil Hägerlund <deb-list@linuxmail.org> writes:
> I want to start applications from a remote host on
> my local net and set back the display.
>
> What wrong and what can I configure to make it work?

You're not using ssh X forwarding.  Browse the archives for this list,
or read the Remote-X-Apps mini-HOWTO (off of http://tldp.org/ or under
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO).  You probably want to use 'ssh -X remote.host'
and not try to do any other configuration.

> This is what I've done:
> $ xhost +w1

You NEVER EVER want to use xhost.

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