Re: Running vlc from another machine.
> Chris Davies wrote:
>> Ssh is usually (almost always, by default) configured to carry the
>> display across the connection transparently,
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Never by default.
Yes. My mistake, sorry. It's one of the things I change so early on -
along with setting up certificate based logins - that I forget it's not
automatically enabled.
> Agreed. But the natural follow-on to this would be to use the DISPLAY
> to set to a remote display such as:
> DISPLAY=otherhost.example.com:0 vlc *.WAV
> And that will run into the issue that by default X Window servers
> these days no longer listen to the network for connections.
Agreed. Fortunately ssh has options to transport the DISPLAY across the
encrypted session, and mostly "it all just works".
Chris
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