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- From: hedrick@farside.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: LINUX...SLIP...NET...X11
- Message-ID: <Nov.18.18.04.43.1992.435@farside.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 23:04:44 GMT
- References: <7jjqq5n@lynx.unm.edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- graves@jemez.eece.unm.edu (John Graves) writes:
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- >Anyone have SLIP running that allows for a "setenv DISPLAY" to work over the
- >virtual ethernet?
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- >I can get NET to work and set up my SLIP connection. The host machine knows
- >my ip address... I can telnet/ftp anywhere... But how do I set up X11 to
- >accept DISPLAY calls over the SLIP line?
-
- Use the command "start x" in net. On the host where you want to start
- an X application, so "setenv DISPLAY nnn:0.0", where nnn is the IP
- address or hostname of your Linux system. That's all you should need.
- Note that there is no security in this implementation, so I normally
- do "start x" only when I've about to start an X application, and then
- do "stop x" after it. "stop x" won't stop existing X applications. I
- just stops net from accepting more.
-