[ale] Silly Window Manager Trick: How can I export a control-panel widg et to start apps from a remote X-server?

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Wed Apr 20 16:12:12 EDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 15:21 -0400, Mills, John M. wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> If I use 'ssh -X' to login on a remote host (running the X-server locally),
> I would like to export an application menu from the remote host back to my
> local server. I would like it to work like my local menu, but start the app
> remotely with its $DISPLAY routed back to me. Should be simple, right?

What happens if from your local machine you "ssh -X me at remotehost",
login and then from that login shell run an X app like xeyes? That
should put the xeyes window on your local display. That is the default
process with ssh -X.

Or are you asking to ssh to the remote machine, run an X app on the
local machine and have it display on the remote machine.

Or run a remote app and disply it on the local machine?
> 
> For that matter it could serve the same function when used locally.
> 
> This must exist, but I don't recall ever coming across one. (No: 'Xterm'
> _does_not_ count.) Can anybody think of a toy like that?
> 
> TIA.
> 
>  - John Mills
> 
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