Re: X Windows on remote client?

Ian wrote:

>> Are you asking if it is possible to run a piece of software (such as
>> XEmacs) on the Linux machine, but have it display on and be controlled by
>> the Windows machine?

> Yep, I think thats what I'm asking. I thought one of the key principles
> of X windows was that you could redirect the output and control to another
> machine....

It is.

> What I remember doing in the past... was logging on via telnet to the
> server.... setting an env variable to point to my desktop machine and
> starting up x windows.

Avoid that. Use SSH instead. The -X switch will allow you to tunnel the X
traffic. (Make sure that X forwarding is allowed in the configuration of
the ssh server).

> My desktop machine in the olden days would have had something like
> hummingbird exceed installed on it to provide the "X server". Thats
> always confused me before as the X server is actually running on my
> client.... client server being all about perspective.

It might help to think of it this way: The X server sits where until a
client connects to it and asks it to draw some windows for it.

> Is there a specific term that covers what I'm trying to do, so I can look
> for a howto?

There really isn't much to it. SSH to the client machine with X forwarding.
Run the application. That's it.

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