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[Andrew <ald2 AT arrakis.es>]

David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ludwig Bezold" <Ludwig.Bezold AT Sun.COM>
>  
>
> > Andrew schrieb:
> >    
> >
> > > Good day,
> > > 'startxt' gives me the standard x-cursor on grey background. How 
> > > do I tell it where the server is? (The network is up and running 
> > > OK, I can ping both ways, the intended server exports the desktop 
> > > to other machines).
> > > TIA,
> > > Andrew
> > >      
> > Edit "startx" to include "-query yourserver" to
> > the Xserver startline.
> >    
>
> I believe it's startxt that you want to edit. A different method:
> 1) Set up network connection
> 2) Run startxt on BL machine
> 3) Run:
>
> DISPLAY="IP" xterm
>
> on the machine with the xterm X client. Replace IP with the IP
> address of the machine running startxt/BL, and replace xterm
> with the X client that you want to run. For instance:
>
> DISPLAY="192.168.0.2" icewm
>
> Good luck.
> David
>  
Editing startx worked and I imagine editing startxt would as well. But I 
find running this hardware (P75, ~50 meg RAM) as a thin client gives 
much better results. I just needed to find out for myself.
Cheers,
Andrew