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stefan1975

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From: 53 6e 65 65 6b

Registered: 2007-04-16

Posts: 195

run remote X apps on local Arch?

Hi,

for my work I need to run remote X apps on RHEL servers locally. On UNIX servers I just to be able to do this just fine as follows:

Local:
$ xhost +

Remote
$ export DISPLAY=${IP_OF_DESKTOP}:0.0
$ start_x_application

and it would give me the GUI of the X application locally. This would even work with a M$ desktop client as long as it had reflectionX/exceed installed as a local X server.

For some reason this does not seem to work on Arch. Am I missing a step here?

thanks,
stefan

Last edited by stefan1975 (2008-05-11 06:55:16)

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skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: run remote X apps on local Arch?

The default xserverrc in Arch disables remote connections to prevent any possible security issues. Just put this in '~/.xserverrc':

exec /usr/bin/X

drewbug01

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From: chicago

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 85

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Re: run remote X apps on local Arch?

I've always tunneled in over SSH....

ssh -Y [i]username@host[/i]