Re: [Sheflug] xhost

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> On Tue, 15 May 2001, ross wrote:
>
> > export DISPLAY="ipaddress"
> export DISPLAY="ipaddress":0.0
> (this is if you are using bash, in csh
> setenv DISPLAY "ipaddress":0.0)

Or learn to use xauth, which offers better security.  Better still, use
ssh with X11 forwarding enabled, then you don't have to worry about it.
It uses xauth and tunnels the X session(s) through ssh.  All good :)

Cheers

Richard

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