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Re: [Plug] Trouble starting X remotely
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Most telnet clients display text only, no graphics. They are too "thin" to do
anything more complicated than that. Some do ReGIS, but I doubt that can handle
high resolution and many colors. You need an X server for any system that you
want to act as an I/O terminal. So, you would need an X server for Win95 and
then you could run your X clients from Linux and direct I/O to the Win95 box by
setting the DISPLAY environment variable (or by specifying on the command line
of the X client). --Josh
Michael Leone wrote:
> I have a machine running Slackware 3.4 (kernel 2.0.34) as an intranet web
> server, email server, etc, on my LAN - all the good stuff that Linux does
> so well and silently. :-)
>
> Anyway - I have X installed on this server. If I startx from the server
> console, everything comes up just as it should. Life is good.
>
> If I telnet in (from a Win95 station), and (following the example in _A
> Practical Guide to Linux_, the only book I have handy here at work) do a
> echo $DISPLAY (to get the contents of the DISPLAY environmental variable to
> pass to X), I get a blank - not the ":0.0" example in the book.
>
> So, when I startx from the telnet session, X starts over on the server
> console.
> And I have to go over to the server and stop X. Life is bad.
>
> 1. What am I doing wrong? I want the X to show in my telnet window on my
> workstation, not on the server. How can I pass X the info to show up here
> rather than there?
> 2. Does the server have to already be running X?
>
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