another thing

[Andrew Markebo]

/ ed <ed@scrunge.org> wrote:
| Chris,
|
| xhost the remote machine, and try opening up an xterm on the remote
| machine with the -display flag. If you don't have xterm on the remote
| machine, then you don't have X installed on the remote machine, and
| therefore X11 forwarding would be worthless.

You could have xterm on the other machine, but no server.. Or an
another X application.. (doesn't sound too likely, but could happen
:-)

And well he has done that, managed to start an x-application over the
network, not through ssh though.

        /Andy

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