Forgot to copy this to the list --- Original Message --- Date: 10/25/2005 From: "Rev Simon Rumble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient
On 25/10/2005, "Phill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm told that one of the big pros of the X server/client is that the >server and the client can be on separate machines ( I guess like a remote >desktop). How can I use my windows machine to run applications on the >linux machine. Currently I'm just using a "vnc" setup. VNC is one way to do it, the other is to run an X server on your desktop. Note the terminology used here: the "client" is actually an X application, like "xcalc"; the server is actually what takes its output and displays it. This isn't about "remote desktop" though, there is a subtle difference. Each X client can point to any X server, so you can quite happily run one application here, another there, another on a third X server. The "desktop" (Window Manager, kind of, in X terminology) is just another X client. Once you've got an X server running on your machine (and set up to accept clients from the remote machine), you set an environment variable called "DISPLAY" to point to the X server, for example: DISPLAY="192.168.1.1:0" xcalc or export DISPLAY="192.168.1.1:0" xcalc& xeyes& (the :0 refers to the number of the X server at that IP address) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
