[lug] Newbie X-window questions

[Glenn Murray]

Eureka! This worked:

    mine$ ssh -X hers
    hers$ xterm &
    hers$ emacs &
NO: hers$ netscape &

A little xterm window popped up!  Better, when I typed 'emacs&' in
either window I got an emacs which thinks it is on hers (because it
is, right?)---an emacs whose display I presume is "tunnelling" through
ssh, so my editing is secure.  Other X apps I tried worked, too.
However, when I type 'netscape&' all the windows lock up (including
emacs and xterm).

I should probably point out that I'm not up to nefariousness: both
"hers" and "mine" are mine (in the sense that I am root on both).  I
just wanted to understand this X-Window/ssh business better.  My
thanks to all of you who wrote to help me out.  

Special thanks to Tony for broadening my mind more than I expected.
Next time when I type "Newbie" in the subject line he'll really
believe it.

See you tonight,
Glenn Murray
www.mines.edu/~glenn/public_html/Welcome.html

On 9 May 2001, Tkil wrote:
...
> 
>    mine$ ssh hers
>    hers$ xterm &

> This should pop open an xterm to the display on "mine".
> 
> Glenn> E.g., if I type "mine$ netscape&" I'll get netscape with her
> Glenn> bookmarks, etc.
> 
> The bookmarks you see when you launch Netscape are determined by the
> username (typically, netscape reads ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html).  So,
> if you want to see her bookmarks, you'll have to either log in as her,
> or copy her bookmark file into your own directory.
> 
> If you have her login and password, you can just:
> 
>    mine$ ssh her at hers
>    hers$ netscape &
> 
> But now you're really executing this as her, on her machine.
> 
> If all you want to do is share bookmarks, use the bookmark export/
> import functionality for that.