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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:48:49 -0400
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From: Ron Steele <ron@dc.infi.net>
Subject: Re: Re-directing X windows to a remote machine..
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At 09:58 AM 10/10/97 -0500, Richard M. Neswold wrote:
>On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote:
>
>> Is there a FAQ that spells out how to re-direct a freebsd X windows
>> desktop to a remote win95/nt machine?
>
>[ snip ]
>
>> Btw is this even possible??!?
>
>Use 'xdm'. It will manage X sessions on local and remote machines.  There is
>a file, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers, that tells 'xdm' which displays to
>control. If you comment out the local server and add your Win95 machine, xdm
>will control the Win95 box, only.
>


In a slightly more generic/lower level view:  X programs send their output
to where ever the DISPLAY environment variable is set (barring command line
intervention). To send the input/output of your X environment to another
machine, set the DISPLAY variable to the IP address of the other machine,
with the display number appended to it. Suppose your nt/win95 machine is at
10.10.10.2 then

export DISPLAY=10.10.10.2:0  will do the trick. (ksh or bash format)  You
may also see this written as 10.10.10.2:0.0. The second 0 is implied in the
first format.

On a program by program basis, X programs all take the command line
parameter "-display" with an argument in the same format as the DISPLAY
environment varible.

Of course you must have an X server (like Exceed) running on the Win95 box.  

Ron