[H-GEN] running remote x apps

[Bruce Campbell]

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On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Paul Gearon wrote:

> Stephen Brine wrote:
> > I am trying to run a remote x app (xmms) with the command
> > 
> > xmms -display 192.168.0.24:0.0
> > now this returns
> > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> 
> Just looks like a permissions problem.  There are various safe ways to
> do this, but for a quick and dirty kludge just execute "xhost +" on the
> machine with the x server (192.168.0.24) and see if this is your
> problem.

For a quick and secure kludge, try using ssh with X11-forwarding rather
than just opening your local $DISPLAY to any other $DISPLAY.  The
annoyance value of 'while true ; do (xeyes -display
$DISPLAY.that.is.xhost+ &); done' is left as an exercise for the reader.

--==--
Bruce.


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