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

[michael calwell <michael.calwell@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Steve Kemp wrote:

> 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.
>  

I'm probably not explaining myself well enough!

I don't need any X stuff running on machine B -  ( I could give you a ps 
listing but it would be long and boring - but I can assure you that 
there's no X stuff running on it.

I can simply telnet to the box, export the display to be 
DISPLAY=machinea:1, and then kick off an x app from that telnet session, 
which then appears on my  box.

Instead of running simple apps, I want to run the whole window manager. 
But I can't do that unless I go to Display 1, start a WM and permit 
connections to that WM. But then if I try to run a WM, well, lo and 
behold, there's already a WM running on Display1, it's the one I had to 
start to run xauth!

Ultimately, I want to be able to go Shift+F7 to get machine A up, and 
Shift+F8 to get machine B up, etc.


>  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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