Re: [edlug] X Question - running on different machine

[Steve Kemp <edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 01:05:04PM +0100, michael calwell wrote:
> 
> I have 2 machines, let's call them machine A and machine B.
> On Machine A, I run an X Server. It uses GDM to run X.
> 
> I want to run the window manager, plus the desktop on machine B, using 
> the X server on machine A.

  Well you will need an X server on machine B to do the displaying
 so I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly.

  From the sounds of things you can use the display forwarding 
 features of SSH (ssh -X a) to login to machine A from B and then 
 run XNest - this lets you start another X session inside on 
 already running (nested).

  Within the nested session you can run a window manager or whatever
 else you wish.

Steve
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