Set up ssh with X forwarding. Start X on your laptop. ssh into the server. Type "kde" and you should get your normal desktop. On Friday, May 12, 2000 2:33 PM, Derek Fountain [SMTP:fountai@hursley.ibm.com] wrote:
Thanks for the input, but that's not what I want to do. I want to log into the main machine from the laptop and see my usual KDE desktop, and have immediate access to all the workstation's software through the usual desktop icons, menus, kpanel, etc.
I have my main workstation which I use in the normal manner. I also now have a laptop which I want to log into the main machine. I can use telnet et al, but what I want to do is log into the main machine using X. That is, I start the laptop, it starts X, and displays me a login (xdm) screen from the main workstation. The laptop just becomes an X-Server for the main workstation's applications.
This is pretty standard stuff around my office (people use Reflection or Exceed to log onto one of our AIX server boxes), but how does it work? The host clearly has to run some X daemon which the client talks to instead of starting it's own xdm session. Er, maybe!?
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Telnet to remote machine. Set the DISPLAY on the remote machine to your local box:
remotebox> export DISPLAY=localbox:0
On your local box:
localbox> xhost +remotebox
Then run an app, it should show up on your local box:
remotebox> xeyes&
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