Remote Window Managers

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Tue, 04/29/2008 - 09:28

Lots of times it's extremely frustrating or time consuming to run an xterm on a remote host just to fork your programs from that remote machine.

Why not just run your window manager there even though you're not on its console? The window manager is just another X application, after all, isn't it?Fire off your local X server xinit /usr/bi


 

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