Re: How to open an application in a remote x session

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:00:48AM -0500, Craig Thomas wrote:
> Dan Track wrote:
> >On 11/9/06, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez <manuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>El Jueves, 9 de Noviembre de 2006 13:14, Dan Track escribió:
> >Thanks for the reply. Sorry I guess I didn't make myself clear, lets
> >say we have teh following:
> >
> >host1                                 host2
> >
> >I want the user on host2 to ssh to host1, then run say gedit which
> >will opne up on the xdisplay the user has running on host1. Do you
> >know how to do this?
> 
> ssh -Y user@host1

Then, on the remote machine:

gedit &
firefox &

The trailing ampersand puts the process into the background. Because
the two programs have their own displays, they show up as usual and
you get the terminal back.

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