On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:30:11 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano >> <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> So you need to X-forward from the remote machine to the machine you are >>> physically on, or perhaps it's the other way (X is really weird). I >>> have no idea how to do that, but would love to know. >> >> With SSH, that's usually just "ssh -X target", and it'll mostly work. > > Holy cow, it works! Sloooooooowly, but works. > > > steve@runes:~$ ssh -X ando.pearwood.info > st...@ando.pearwood.info's password: > Last login: Mon Dec 30 10:10:13 2013 from orac > [steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 test.py > [steve@ando ~]$
On a LAN, it's not even slow! I've actually run VLC through ssh -X and watched a DVD that was in a different computer's drive. That was fun. You can even get a Windows X server and run Linux GUI programs on a Windows client. *Very* useful if you're working with both types of computer. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
