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This mini-HOWTO describes how to run remote X applications. That is, how to have an X program display on a different computer than the one it's running on. Or conversely: how to make an X program run on a different computer than the one you're sitting at. The focus of this mini-HOWTO is on security. This mini-HOWTO also contains information on running X applications locally, but with a different user-id, and information on setting up a computer as an X terminal.
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Remote X Apps mini-HOWTO
Vincent Zweije, zweije@xs4all.nl
v0.7.5, 8 December 2001This mini-HOWTO describes how to run remote X applications. That is, how to have an X program display on a different computer than the one it's running on. Or conversely: how to make an X program run on a different computer than the one you're sitting at. The focus of this mini-HOWTO is on security. This mini-HOWTO also contains information on running X applications locally, but with a different user-id, and information on setting up a computer as an X terminal.
1. Introduction
2. Related Reading
3. The Scene
4. A Little Theory
5. Telling the Client
6. Telling the Server
7. X Applications from Another User-id
8. Running a Remote Window Manager
9. Setting Up an X Terminal
- 9.1 Once More, a Little Theory First
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9.2 Configuring
Xas an XDMCP Client -
9.3 Configuring
xdmas an XDMCP Server - 9.4 XDMCP Technically
10. Troubleshooting
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