On Tuesday 21 October 2003 4:53 pm, John Pettigrew wrote:
Would this not result in the downstairs PC operating as a dumb terminal? Not fatal in itself, but means a slowdown on the upstairs PC and (more crucially) an awful lot of data being shoved down my poxy little 10 Mb LAN.
Not really. Unless you have loads of apps which require constant display refreshing. IIRC It only sends changes - it doesn't poll constantly.
Does doing this mean that launching kmail thusly from a ssh terminal produces an X windowed app on the downstairs machine's screen?
Yup. You end up with kmail on your downstair's screen, as if you had invoked it from there. Of course all your emails are still on the other box. Jon -- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) Linux 2.4.20-4GB-athlon