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

[tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com]

plug@lists.nothinbut.net on 05/27/99 05:40:18 PM

To:   Thomas A Burba/USVISION, dan@gasboy.com
cc:   linux-list@ssc.com, plug@lists.nothinbut.net
Subject:  Re: !!!Re: [SLL] Stupid X-server question...




this is what i would do:
1. start X on mybox.
2. open a command prompt [xterm window]
3. telnet to serverroombox, log in
4. launch any app you want [from the command line, ie type: netscape
[ENTER]]
5. append an & to the end of the command if you want your shell prompt back
while the app is running.
make sense?
thanks!
joe
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-----Original Message-----
From: tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com <tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com>
To: dan@gasboy.com <dan@gasboy.com>
Cc: linux-list@ssc.com <linux-list@ssc.com>; plug@lists.nothinbut.net
<plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: !!!Re: [SLL] Stupid X-server question...

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>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...
>
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>dan@gasboy.com on 05/17/99 04:09:53 PM
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>To:   linux-list@ssc.com
>cc:    (bcc: Thomas A Burba/USVISION)
>Subject:  !!!Re: [SLL] Stupid X-server question...
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>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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