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[Henrik Andersson]

Or use VNC, it even works from a windows machine.

- Henrik Andersson

Erik Bågfors wrote:
> You are missing 
> 1) This is VERY insecure
> 2) This has been disabled by default in most linux distribution because of this
> 3) Use ssh instead.
> 
> ssh -X host
> then run your application.
> 
> 2005/9/2, Henning Kilset Pedersen <henning at mopo.no>:
> 
>>Hello.
>>
>>I've used Linux/Unix for several years, and whenever I wish to run a
>>program on a different machine and redirect the display output to my
>>machine, I've done:
>>
>>mymachine$ xhost +
>>remotemachine$ export DISPLAY=mymachine:0.0
>>remotemachine$ blahXapp
>>
>>However, on Ubuntu when I try this - the xhost + command works fine, and
>>the DISPLAY variable gets properly exported. But when I try to run the
>>application, I get:
>>
>>(gnome-cups-manager:24021): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>>
>>Am I missing something here?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Henning Pedersen
>>
>>
>>
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>>
> 
> 


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