On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 02:59:49PM +0100, Kenn Humborg mentioned:
> > Just as a futher question after Aaron's point. If I have exceed running on
> > a windows platform, can I telnet to a Linux box, export the display to my
> > machine and run startx. I use exceed to run an x-windows application from
> > an AIX machine. However, I can't seem to get the same to work from Linux.
> You don't use startx. That starts the X server (as might be
> inferred from its name).
>> Just export DISPLAY=me:0 and run your X app:
>> $ export DISPLAY=me:0
> $ xterm &
> $ gimp &
Or, if you want the whole GNOME environment:
export DISPLAY=ipaddress:0
gnome-session &
Kate
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