Re: X Windows on a remote machine

[Anton de Wet <adw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Alwin Wiederhold wrote:

Hi Alwin

> Hi
> 
> I need to run X programs on a remote RS/6000 running AIX.  On my Linux
> machine I have installed X, with the fvwm95 windows manager.

Good.

> Do I need to install Motif in order to run Motif applications from the
> RS/6000?

No, as the whole application runs on the RS/6000 side and it only sends X
primitives accross the network.

> How do I tell the RS/6000 to write to my screen.

On a remote *nix system you would do something like:
  export DISPLAY=mybox:0
on the remote machine and
  xhost +remotename
on your machine (That is the less secure way of doing it, have a look at
the x man pages if you need propper security)

The only thing that might give some fun and games is that the remote
machine specifies fonts not available on your machine. In that cas you can
either get and install the fonts or use the remote machine as a x font
server and set up your machine to read fronts from there. Not to difficult
to set up.


> The other people in this office are using an X-windows emulator under
> Windoze 95 to do the same,

That must be its own punishment.

> but obviously I do not intend doing that.

set up kde nicely and make them all jealous :-)


Anton



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