cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) (12/09/89)
Is it possible to do the following: Log into local (slow) workstation. rlogin over to one of the fast machines Start X over on my workstation. Reading the X man pages, this appears easily done. Guess what? I can't do it. I either bring up X on the fast machine, using it's display; bring up X on the slow machine, using it's display, or bring up a non-working version of X on the fast machine. Anybody done this? ................ Chan Wilson -- cwilson@nisc.sri.com <or> cwilson@nic.ddn.mil 'A computer operator at SRI International' "I think, therefore...uh...I should be?" ...UUCP/GS in research phase. More to come... ................
haozhou@acsu.Buffalo.EDU (hao zhou) (12/10/89)
In article <10719@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM> cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) writes: > >Is it possible to do the following: > >Log into local (slow) workstation. >rlogin over to one of the fast machines >Start X over on my workstation. > i don't think you can do this. one major difference of X to the other window systems is that display power and computational power are separate on different machines. X server (partially including window manager) is running on your local machine managing i/o and display of each window. Meanwhile X clients are running on a remote host. >Reading the X man pages, this appears easily done. Guess what? I can't >do it. I either bring up X on the fast machine, using it's display; if you rlogin on a remote host, you can't take any advantage of your local machine since it becomes a regular terminal. in the other words, you won't be able to have your local machine display windows. >bring up X on the slow machine, using it's display, or bring up a >non-working version of X on the fast machine. > the correct way to do this is use a local *slow* machine to bring up window while using a remote *fast* machine to run x clients or other applications. hao Hao Zhou { Dept of Math, SUNY at Buffalo } haozhou@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu V092R9AZ@UBVMS.BITNET Hao Zhou { Dept of Math, SUNY at Buffalo } haozhou@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu V092R9AZ@UBVMS.BITNET