remote X display

[Jonathon McKitrick]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:08:46AM -0500, Jason Stewart wrote:
: On 22/01/04 14:53 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
: > 
: > Hi all,
: > 
: > I have been looking all over for a concise howto for remote X on FreeBSD.  I
: > see some that involve changing config files in the xdm directory, others use
: > xhost, and another uses xfig, which doesn't exist under FreeBSD AFAICT.
: > 
: > All I want to do is use a laptop in a local network to be an X client
: > connected to a more powerful desktop machine.  I'm not worried about
: > security.
: > 
: > Is xhosts and the DISPLAY variable all I need?  Or do I need to go through
: > all of the xdm configuration hoops?
: > 
: 
: One idea is to use SSH.
: If you have sshd on the remote desktop you can use ssh -X to enable
: X11 forwarding. Just ssh into the remote box and run the X
: application and you're set to go, provided that X11 forwarding is
: enabled in the remote sshd_config.

Ah, I remember seeing this before, now that I think about it.  Thanks for
the reminder.

Do I do this from the console or from an xterm?  In other words, should X
already be running?


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jm
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