Well, you need FAST bandwidth to do it reasonably, but assuming you
have it, it's easy.
First, to run a single program, telnet (or rlogin or ssh or...) to the
remote computer, set the DISPLAY environment variable to point back to
your machine, and run the X program.
To get a full session, you need to run only a minimal number of
programs locally, and then run most everything else from the remote
computer. So change .xinitrc to just have this single line (Replacing
ssh by rsh or whatever):
xterm -e ssh remote.host exec ./.xsession
Put your session commands in the .xsession file on the remote
computer.
By the way, if you start running X programs remotely a lot, you should
look into xauth. Otherwise people will likely be able to connect to
your X server and do nasty annoying things.
Lex
Jim Roland writes:
> Is there any such thing as an X windows version of a telnet session?
> Basically, I'd like to be able to get an X windows session via remote just
> like one would get a shell prompt (and run programs like pine). Thanks in
> advance.
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