cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) (11/08/89)
I've got two workstations, side by side. From time to time, after hours, it would be nice to be able to tell X to use the other workstation's screen as an additional display. Is this possible?
feit@cs.odu.EDU (Mark Feit) (11/10/89)
It sure is... Just log into the other workstation at its console, start X, and go back to your first workstation. Then use the -display option to specify the display. For example: You are working on a workstation called "tuna" and "flounder" is sitting next to you. Log into flounder at the console and start X. You MUST make sure that xhost is not active on flounder or your connections will be refused. To start ab t xcalc over there, just type xcalc -display flounder:0 and watch things fly. The only drawback to this is that you must usr the flounder's mouse and keyboard to use things in the display... But come to think of it, a utility to make a second X display active when you drag the mouse off the screen shouldn't be TOO hard to write.