XWindows Question Quick one 397
Black Sun and said:
Could you have possibly picked more of a flamebait topic and Subject header, Dave? (Oh well. I like FreeBSD very much, by the way. To answer your question about whether OS X...
When using that broken "G2" Permanent Alpha excuse for an NNTP client, included. Context restored:
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Itisconfusing, but the component that displays windows on your PC is an X server. The applications that want to display windows (like xterm or xclock) are X...
The part of X that draws pictures on a monitor and takes input from a keyboard and mouse is called the "X server". Its closest analogue in Windows-OS X speak is "display driver". Programs like xterm that talk to the X server and tell it what to draw are called "X clients". (This actually makes sense when you think like a programmer and know what each program involved is actually doing. The X server is providing a service--access to the display and input devices. The X clients are requesting input from the server and writing graphical output to it.)
The AIX machine must have X forwarding turned on. After you've ssh -X or ssh -Y'ed into the AIX machine, "echo $DISPLAY" should return So in that case, you'll have to do "export DISPLAY=windows.machine:0" and set up your Windows X server such that it'll accept connections from the AIX machine. Check its documentation for details. HTH,
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