[lug] Newbie X-window questions

[Glenn Murray]

This X terminology is just about opaque.  I want for example, to open
a window on mine in which the stuff happening is on her computer.
E.g., if I type "mine$ netscape&" I'll get netscape with her
bookmarks, etc.

mine/$ ssh hers xterm
bash: xterm: command not found
mine/$ xhost +hers
hers being added to access control list
mine/$ ssh hers
me at hers:me/$ export DISPLAY=adrenaline:0
me at hers:me/$ xterm &
[1] 1936
me at hers:me/$ netscape &

But nothing happens?  Could this be a packet filtering problem?

Glenn Murray
www.mines.edu/~glenn/public_html/Welcome.html

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Hugh Brown wrote:

> If you are sitting at mine why do you want a window to open up on hers?
> You can't do that (that I know of) by the way.  Maybe you mean this.
> sitting at mine, want to get an xterm on hers to open on mine
> 
> Method 1.
> mine$ ssh hers xterm
> 
> Method 2.
> mine$ xhost +hers
> mine$ ssh hers
> hers$ export DISPLAY=mine:0 #assumes sh/bash/ksh syntax
> hers$ xterm&
> 
> Hugh
> 
> > 
> > More fundamentally, though, I'd like at this point to get even one
> > window open using "host-based authentication".  To avoid the
> > "local/remote" confusion, say I have a Linux box "mine" which I am
> > sitting at, and there is a Linux box "hers" running on the local net,
> > on which I have an account.  I can ssh to hers, and then
> > 
> > hers$ xhost +mine
> > xhost:  unable to open display ""
> > 
> > Does X need to be running on hers already?  Can I start it?
> > 
> > Don't I have to export some DISPLAY variable?
> > 
> > What do I type at mine$ to get a window on hers?
> > 
> > Again, Thanks!
> > Glenn Murray
> > www.mines.edu/~glenn/public_html/Welcome.html
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