[TriLUG] remote X display

[Jason Tower]

although there are a few differences, this is essentially what LTSP does
with thin clients.  they have a detailed explanation of how it works in
their main documentation, check it out.  you might also want to download
their packages and examine the config files which might give you a few
hints about getting it to work in your situation.

http://ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-3.0-4-en.html

> I want to get an X client (on host A) to direct its display to an X
> server (on host B)
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> The connection between hosts must be ssh.  I need the full desktop - not
> individual X apps.  I can not use VNC instead, etc.
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> I have configured host A (xauth, xsessions, gdm stuff...) and am able to
> use XDMCP and CHOOSER to connect from a solaris host (host C)
> I am also able to ssh from host B to host A.  From the remote shell on
> host A I can echo $DISPLAY and I see that it is set to localhost:11.0
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> I understand this to mean that an X client started on host A, directed
> to localhost:11.0, will be treated as another local X display on host A,
> but in fact the X will be redirected through the ssh tunnel back to host
> B.
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> How do I now get host A's X desktop displayed back on host B?
> If I do X -query localhost (which is where DISPLAY is exported for the
> ssh tunnel) I get an error saying unknown host: localhost
> If I do X -query 172.16.128.140 (which is the ip address of host B) I
> get an error saying Server is already active for display 0
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> Thanks to those who have helped so far... I asked questions of several
> folks at the install-fest but still have not figured this out.
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