Wondering about X
Is it just me, or is X unbelievably complicated? I'm trying to get a handle on remote X-apps, and while I understand it conceptually I find configuration to be very obscure, with documentation that's all over the place. Here's a humorous link that I can relate to: http://pepper.idge.net/disaster.html The O'Reilly X Window System Admin book was published in 1992 and allowed to go out of print. What's going on? Do people just use VNC, and call it good? Thanks, Steve
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 19.58, Steve Adams wrote:
Is it just me, or is X unbelievably complicated?
I'm trying to get a handle on remote X-apps, and while I understand it conceptually I find configuration to be very obscure, with documentation that's all over the place. Here's a humorous link that I can relate to:
http://pepper.idge.net/disaster.html
The O'Reilly X Window System Admin book was published in 1992 and allowed to go out of print. What's going on? Do people just use VNC, and call it good?
Exactly what is the problem? Remote X for me is a simple case of "ssh -X user@remotemachine". Nothing else needed, from a default suse setup. In 9.1, for various security reasons, the default is for X to not listen to tcp networking, so if you absolutely want to do that you have to enable it, but aside from that there is no configuration needed, assuming you have the local X server up and running. On the remote side, you only need to have X installed, nothing there needs to be configured at all
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 14:04, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 19.58, Steve Adams wrote:
Is it just me, or is X unbelievably complicated?
I'm trying to get a handle on remote X-apps, and while I understand it conceptually I find configuration to be very obscure, with documentation that's all over the place. Here's a humorous link that I can relate to:
http://pepper.idge.net/disaster.html
The O'Reilly X Window System Admin book was published in 1992 and allowed to go out of print. What's going on? Do people just use VNC, and call it good?
Exactly what is the problem? Remote X for me is a simple case of "ssh -X user@remotemachine". Nothing else needed, from a default suse setup.
In 9.1, for various security reasons, the default is for X to not listen to tcp networking, so if you absolutely want to do that you have to enable it, but aside from that there is no configuration needed, assuming you have the local X server up and running. On the remote side, you only need to have X installed, nothing there needs to be configured at all
Ummm, OK. I'll go kill myself now. Looking at it again, I can see that p.439 of the 9.1 admin guide says exactly that. At the time, I was thinking that I just wanted to get it working first (after poking around, enabling listening on tcp, etc.), and that I'd worry about incorporating SSH later. How do you know all this stuff?
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:37:41 -0400
Steve Adams
How do you know all this stuff?
"I" don't, but "We" do. That's what the list (and the Linux Community) is about. Find out what interests you, read the man pages and info pages and the source if you need/want to, and then help us all in return. Contribute to code, "how-to"s, etc., (or, like me, merely try to help at a low level) and help us out with what you will then know! Look forward to seeing you add your 2d worth as you find you know what others need to know! HTH Terence
Is it just me, or is X unbelievably complicated?
I'm trying to get a handle on remote X-apps, and while I understand it conceptually I find configuration to be very obscure, with documentation that's all over the place. Here's a humorous link that I can relate to:
http://pepper.idge.net/disaster.html
The O'Reilly X Window System Admin book was published in 1992 and allowed to go out of print. What's going on? Do people just use VNC, and call it good? Think of X as an assembler language or low level protocol. Today, most
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 13:58:57 -0400
Steve Adams
Steve Adams wrote:
Is it just me, or is X unbelievably complicated?
I'm trying to get a handle on remote X-apps, and while I understand it conceptually I find configuration to be very obscure, with documentation that's all over the place. Here's a humorous link that I can relate to:
http://pepper.idge.net/disaster.html
The O'Reilly X Window System Admin book was published in 1992 and allowed to go out of print. What's going on? Do people just use VNC, and call it good?
Thanks, Steve
I have used xdmcp for quite a few years, e.g "X :2 -query
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Anders Johansson
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Jerry Feldman
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Sid Boyce
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Steve Adams
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Terence McCarthy