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LinuxPower: Remote X

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 8, 1999

This page is going to help you run X programs on another
computer, but display it on your X session. This is especially
helpful if you have a slow machine on your LAN or want to display X
applications on a Windows machine.

“On your client side (the computer you want to display and use
the program) you need something that allows the display of X
programs. On a Linux/Unix machine you’ll probably just need to have
something like XFree86 or MetroX; any standard X server will do, as
long as it displays and starts up fine on your computer. If it’s a
Windows machine, you need to download an X server. Two that I know
of are XWin32 and MI/X. You can look for more at Tucows, under
server daemons, I think.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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