[ale] launch programs over ssh into session?

[Geoffrey]

Jay Loden wrote:
> I have some machines I have ssh access to (e.g. my mother's machine).
> I was wondering if there is anyway I could, for example, do something
> like launch a browser window (let's say konqueror, for example) and
> have it show up in her session.
> 
> I don't know much about how sessions are divided in Linux, so I'm not
> sure how this works.  If I want to open a copy of AbiWord on my
> mother's machine so she can see it launched, is there any way to do
> that via ssh? (not vnc, I know how to do that)


ssh -x momsmachine

then in that xterm, set DISPLAY to :0.0 as it won't be set by ssh.  Now 
fire off the program.  I just tested this on two boxes I have here.

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Until later, Geoffrey