Re: !!!Re: [SLL] Stupid X-server question...

[tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com]

Thanks to all for your many responses, but they all seem incomplete. The
man pages and the How-tos are great, but they obviously are written by
folks that are defining the pieces -- not the steps. (Yes, I RTFMs) Its
sort of like trying to learn the English language from the dictionary.
Enough griping... Anyway, can anyone recommend the _complete_ steps for
_one_ of the X-term connectivity methods you'all wrote about --  when we
have the following default stuff set up:
     To be used for this example: two RedHat 5.2 boxes that run X
successfully on themselves, can easily telnet (character based) to each
other via TCPIP.
To not confuse client/server terminology with X client and X server
terminology here, I am gonna' call them:
     "MyBox" where I, as a human want to do the GUI stuff that I can
normally do locally at the:
     "ServerRoomBox" where I have to trudge through the rain to another
building and crawl into a refrigerated room to get to it.

I would like to start an X session on MyBox that will magically transport
me as though I was sitting in the frozen tundra and actually doing stuff at
the ServerRoomBox itself. I would want to be able to run anything (Xbased)
that I would be able to do locally with frozen fingers in the ServerRoom.

If there actually is a document that is clear enough to be step-by-step in
this regard please let me know.
     A great man once said, "The _really_ important unix stuff is only
taught by word of mouth..."
Thanks again in advance...




dan@gasboy.com on 05/17/99 04:09:53 PM

To:   linux-list@ssc.com
cc:    (bcc: Thomas A Burba/USVISION)
Subject:  !!!Re: [SLL] Stupid X-server question...




On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 11:22:37AM -0700, Eric Leung wrote:
> There are a couple of ways to set this up.
>
> One way is to get your x-term linux box to do an xdm login to another
> linux box running xdm. There is a way to start X for xdm login but I
can't
> remember how. If you do this, your display box will behave truly as an
> x-terminal. If someone else remembers what the command line switch is,
let
> me know!
>
> The other way is to start x in the usual way on your display box, then
> telnet to other boxes in an xterm. You can then launch apps with a
display
> switch to show them on your display box
> (ie: coolxapp -display linux1:0.0 &). Alternatively you can set the
> DISPLAY environmental variable.
Then there's variation 2.1.
-- Make sure nothing on any box where you run apps sets the
   DISPLAY variable.
-- Launch your apps from the box you're sitting in front of with
   the "xon" utility, which will launch any X app but defaults
   to xterm.  Thus
     xon shindig
   launches xterm on host "shindig" with DISPLAY pointing back
   at the host where you run xon.
   See "man xon" for tricks.
I run X apps on three other hosts frequently, a dozen hosts from
time to time, all launched from KDE window icons configured to run
variations on "xon".
--
Dan Wilder                          <dan@gasboy.com>
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