From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 20 17:37:04 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA01054 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 17:37:04 -0800 Received: from glueserv1.umd.edu (glueserv1.umd.edu [129.2.70.69]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA01044 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 17:37:00 -0800 Received: from espresso.eng.umd.edu (espresso.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.13]) by glueserv1.umd.edu (8.6.9/8.6.4) with ESMTP id UAA04624; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 20:36:48 -0500 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by espresso.eng.umd.edu (8.6.9/8.6.4) id UAA17363; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 20:36:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 20:36:47 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Charlie Root cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199501201729.RAA00250@gilbertr.npt.nuwc.navy.mil> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 20 Jan 1995, Charlie Root wrote: > subject: remote X-Windows > > Hi! > I have seen eXodus, Xodus, or whatever the name, software which > I believe allows the Apple Computers to launch Xwindows applications > and of course observe them remotely. What is required to do this > between two Unix machines (or more specifically FreeBSD to SUN) ? Nothing extra is needed at all. X uses the concept of a display, which is both the network name of the machine and a serial number for multiple display on one machine. On my machine n3lxx, the display is n3lxx:0.0. On n3lxx, if I want to open a display on my other machine, Journey2, I just use a command line switch to tell the application the name of the display to start itself on. First, I issue "xhost n3lxx" on Journey2, to tell the X server on Journey2 that I want to give n3lxx permission to use Journey2's local display. Then, to start an application (I'll use xterm, as a simple and common example here) on n3lxx I issue "xterm -display Journey2:0.0", and a new xterm shows up on the Journey2 machine's display. None of this is extra, it's all part of the standard X capabilities. > > Thanks > > Bob Gilbert GILBERTR@WPN.NPT.NUWC.NAVY.MIL > and sometimes root@gilbertr.npt.nuwc.navy.mil > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------