Remote X Apps

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:17:48PM +0000, Ben Edwards wrote:
> Been trying to run a remote aplication.  I.e. I have been using ssh to
> conect to a remote PC on our network and running gkrellm on the remote
> computer with the GUI coming up on my local PC.
> 
> So on the local machene I have tried 
> 
> xhost +192.168.x.x
> 
> or just 
> 
> xhost +
> 
> and on the remote computer doing 
> 
> gkrellm -display 192.168.7.252
> 
> I have tried appending :0 and :0.0 to the end but always get the error
> 
> (gkrellm:24422): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> 
> Any idea what I am doing wrong?
> 

This should work:

>From a terminal window:

ssh -X 192.168.7.252
(enter password or passphrase when prompted)
gkrellm