Remote X11 Connection

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Sat Aug 4 19:39:55 UTC 2007


>  If you want
> to run a remote desktop in an already running X session, use "Xnest
> -query remote_host".  

Ah yes, I knew I would forget one ;)

BTW : In the above command you need to specific the display number, otherwise 
it defaults to :0 and thus will complain as that is normally your current X 
session. Just run for instance

 > Xnest :10 -query remote_host

to start Xnest using display 10 (10 is an example, any number will do)

see 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xnest

for more details

Chris




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