Re: [SLUG] export:DISPLAY

From: Paul Hostetler (phostetl@columbus.rr.com)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 07:01:22 EST


On Tuesday 20 November 2001 03:50 am, you wrote:
> Yesterday, Andrew Wyatt posted the following line:
> export DISPLAY=localhost:0;X :0&xterm&
>
> I want to log in to my home box from school and see my home box as if
> sitting at it ... GUI and all.
>
> How is this done? What man page should I be looking at? "man DISPLAY"
> comes up empty. I have seen discussions of exporting video output but
> didn't pay much attention to them at the time (was still trying to
> figure out how to use RPM's). Now, I could use the information and I
> don't even know where to start searching for it.

VNC does what you want and more.

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

Paul



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