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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: X question
Date: 13 Mar 1997 13:58:04 GMT
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Fabien Wernly <fwernly@dimail.epfl.ch> wrote:

> How can I do the opposiet, i.e. display an x-client on another machine?

	env DISPLAY=remote:dpy.screen application

Most application also offer a command-line option for this (e.g., all
Xt-based applications):

	application -display remote:dpy.screen

(dpy.screen is probably 0.0 in 99 % of all situations.)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j