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- From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: X-Windows Display Utility
- Message-ID: <69816@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 22:33:14 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Nov17.203844.13537@pb.com>
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Nov17.203844.13537@pb.com> hurme@micro2.pb.com (John Hurme)
- writes:
-
- | Is anyone aware of an X-Windows utility that will re-direct graphic
- | images files to X-Window client (or servers).
-
- Kinda ambiguous question there. :-)
-
- Assuming you mean to display the images other than on the console at which
- you are located, there are several approaches:
-
- 1) if you're in control, just set ``DISPLAY="otherhost:0.0"'' in the
- environment, and run the X-app; the image will display on the
- screen of "otherhost" assuming either that system has an /etc/X0.hosts
- permitting writeability from your system, or that "xhost +" (simplest
- case) was executed there to permit screen writes from your system. See
- the man page for xhost to prevent security-related problems.
-
- 2) if you want the image to appear on multiple other systems' displays,
- you might want to adapt the Xt lib example code from the program
- named MultiUserVote which is in export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/
-
- Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
-