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Date:      Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:24:50 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Remote X from another BSD Box
Message-ID:  <20030321005450.GA28061@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <003d01c2ee8d$bdc503c0$2f811581@garfield>
References:  <003d01c2ee8d$bdc503c0$2f811581@garfield>

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On Wednesday, 19 March 2003 at 22:06:45 -0500, Brian McCann wrote:
> Hi all.  I'd imagine this would be fairly simple since I got it to work
> from Xmanager for Windows...but I'm having difficulties.  I have 2
> boxes, both BSD (one FreeBSD, one OpenBSD).  The FreeBSD box has a full
> blown install of X with KDE and all kinds of stuff, the OpenBSD just has
> a basic X installed with xdm.  I'd like to be able to use the OpenBSD
> box as a display for the FreeBSD box.  I thought I'd just be able to ssh
> into the FreeBSD box and run xmms, xcalc, xterm, whatever I wanted...but
> no dice.  Can someone help me out?

The most obvious way of doing this is to start an xterm on the FreeBSD
server:

  xterm -display freebsd:0.0 &

For this to work, you should:

1.  On the FreeBSD box, modify /usr/X11R6/bin/startx.  Change the line

      listen_tcp="-nolisten tcp"

    to

      listen_tcp=""

2.  Also on the FreeBSD box, run xhost:

    xhost openbsd

This applies to any other X application as well, of course.

Greg
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