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Thanks Nigel,<BR>
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that seems to have worked. 8-)<BR>
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thanx heaps<BR>
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David. 8-)<BR>
On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 20:54 +0800, Nigel Duff wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi David,</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:33:09PM +0800, David Buddrige wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><snip details for using xhost and setting the DISPLAY variable></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">This doesn't answer your question directly but this is the way I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">usually do X11 forwarding. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Set "X11Forwarding yes" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (or comparable</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">file on your distro) on the server.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Then from the machine I want the program to display on (your</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">laptop) use ssh with X11 forwarding. ie;</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">ssh -X user@my-server-ip</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">After you are asked for your password just run the program you</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">want. I just did it on my home network and when I ran evolution</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">it popped up the setup sequence for evolution.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hope that helps,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Nigel</FONT>
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