[ale] launch programs over ssh into session?

[Christopher Bergeron]

You may have to run "xhost +" to allow your session to open the 
application remotely.

Best regards,
CB


Geoffrey wrote:

> Jay Loden wrote:
>
>> I have some machines I have ssh access to (e.g. my mother's machine).
>> I was wondering if there is anyway I could, for example, do something
>> like launch a browser window (let's say konqueror, for example) and
>> have it show up in her session.
>>
>> I don't know much about how sessions are divided in Linux, so I'm not
>> sure how this works.  If I want to open a copy of AbiWord on my
>> mother's machine so she can see it launched, is there any way to do
>> that via ssh? (not vnc, I know how to do that)
>
>
>
> ssh -x momsmachine
>
> then in that xterm, set DISPLAY to :0.0 as it won't be set by ssh.  
> Now fire off the program.  I just tested this on two boxes I have here.
>