[Info-vax] OSes

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On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 21:12:45 +0100
Johnny Billquist via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> On 2016-01-17 19:14, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> > On 15 Jan 2016 16:33:57 -0500
> > Bob Koehler via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In article <mailman.1.1452850533.15674.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,
> >> lists at openmailbox.org writes:
> >>>
> >>> I got the impression this (DECwindows using X forwarding from VMS to a
> >>> Linux X server) is not possible on SIMH. Has anybody gotten it to
> >>> work?
> >>
> >>     Not specifically that combination, but ever other combination of
> >>     X11 on Linux with other systems, and X11 on VMS, including from
> >> simh, has worked for me, no matter which one I wanted as the server
> >> and which one I wanted as the client.
> >
> > What are you running from SIMH that you X forward, if not VAX/VMS?
> 
> Are you aware that X is a protocol over TCP.

Yes.

> There is no need to "forward" it. And what people are talking about here
> is actually to not* forward it, but let the X clients talk directly with
> the X server, without any forwarding agent in between...?

The two ways I know about are logging into the remote host's X server which
I guess is what you are talking about, and X forwarding from the remote
host to the local host which is how I usually prefer do things. For remote
desktops I use other solutions. I use X forwarding all the time when I want
to run just one app on a remote host and use my local X server to run the
app with the rest of the apps on my desktop.

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