Re: [Sheflug] Firewall config - for Ross.

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> In this xterm, do `ssh -X there' to host `there'.  Do `echo $DISPLAY',
> you should get something like "there:10.0".  "But I don't want my X
> apps to display `there', I want them `here'!"  It's OK.  Note the "10"
> -- that is the ssh program pretending to be an X server.

Wow! It works like this! Looks like I was dreaming about having run X over
ssh before - I thought it was the usual export DISPLAY=here:0.0
etc. business... Thanks!

Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk


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