[ale] [OT] Remote Display of OS X

[John Mills]

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On Mon, 13 May 2002, Denny Chambers wrote:

> WARNING: I know next to nothing about Apple OS's

Me neither. The nice thing about my wife's iMac is that I don't have to.
 
> Since OS X is basically a BSD derivitive, is there any way to export the
> display (native xwindows tools/ 3rd party tool (VNC?)) to another *nix
> box.

DISCLAIMER - I haven't tried this.

1) Set up 'sshd' on the Mac

2) Come in from *nix with '$ ssh -X'

Worth a try, I would think. However you do this, you want the app to run
on the OS-X host, and the X-server _and_ the window manager to run on the
*nix host. VNC is admirable, but I reserve it for times when I must export
an X-Windows display to a machine which _can't_ run X-Window System. (In
fact VNC does just that: it runs a server locally and exports a $DISPLAY
from it: all mousing, resizing, focus change, etc, has to go over the
net.)

Going the other way: 'eWeek' has been has been running full-spread Apple
ads the last two weeks with an iBook running OS-X, and acting as a
sysAdmin's X-terminal to run (IIRC) a Sun network. (Is 'Sun network'
redundant?) It really looks like a nice job.

 - John Mills


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