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

[Jeff Hubbs]

FWIW, current versions of openssh appear to have changed the option from
-X to -Y. 



On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 16:03 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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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