[Daytonaaaaa]

Ok, I just d/led X11 onto my PB. I personally don't care about using X11 locally, but I do want to connect back to the campus's linux server and run emacs off there graphically...

I launched X11, connected to the server, typed "emacs &", nothing happended. tty output is suspeneded

What am I missing here?

Daytona

[Kristoff]

On your xterm, you must

xhost <hostname>

or

xhost + (opens your display to the world)

on the remote machine

set DISPLAY=<your local host name or IP>:0.0

then

run anything you want.

But, if you have routers, etc you will need to forward appropriate ports.

[mmurray]

Originally posted by Daytonaaaaa:
Ok, I just d/led X11 onto my PB. I personally don't care about using X11 locally, but I do want to connect back to the campus's linux server and run emacs off there graphically...

I launched X11, connected to the server, typed "emacs &", nothing happended. tty output is suspeneded

What am I missing here?

Daytona

An alternative to what Kristoff posted would be to do


ssh -X [email protected]us

where username is your username on the
campus linux server and linux.server.campus is its name. Then doing emacs & should result in emacs appearing on your powerbook. This
method has the advantage that it tunnels all the X traffic through a secure ssh connection.

Michael

[asmodeus]

Wow.. that's really awesome. I logged into my uni's student Linux server and ran a few X11 apps from their server. Wasn't incredibly fast, but it was pretty neat.

[Kristoff]

Apple's X11 is fast on the LAN. But still has bugs.


Try this out, if your remote machines are running XDMCP:

from the regular terminal WITHOUT X11.app running,

/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query <remote_host_name_or_IP>

[Daytonaaaaa]

Tried it on my DSL at home. It was a little slow to get emacs fully started up, but after that it works like a CHARM!!!

Thanks for the help!

Daytona

[simon.toon]

Originally posted by Kristoff:
Try this out, if your remote machines are running XDMCP:

from the regular terminal WITHOUT X11.app running,

/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query <remote_host_name_or_IP>

Strange - I got a lot of feedback in my Terminal but no login screen appeared on my Mac. How do you know whether XDMCP is running or not? What should the process be called?

[Arkham_c]

Another thing worth mentioning. If you're planning on using SSH to get to the remote box that will be displaying back, be sure to enable compression in SSH if you have a slow connection (it will slow things down if you're on a LAN).

To do this in OpenSSH (which comes with OSX) add the -C flag. To do it in ssh1 (if memory serves), you add -z 6 to the ssh arguments.

[Kristoff]

Originally posted by simon.toon:
Strange - I got a lot of feedback in my Terminal but no login screen appeared on my Mac. How do you know whether XDMCP is running or not? What should the process be called?

It depends on which display manager the server is running.

I run KDM on my linux box, so in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc I have:

Code:
[Xdmcp]
Enable=true
KeyFile=/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-keys
Willing=
Xaccess=/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess

for GDM, you would look in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf


I am not sure for other Display Managers.