Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Ubuntu Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 13 Message-ID: <24049304.27.1318953582217.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prng5> References: <4e9b8f0c$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <9g5i1tFnnbU3@mid.individual.net> Reply-To: comp.lang.java.programmer@googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.109.106.72 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1318953761 29664 127.0.0.1 (18 Oct 2011 16:02:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:02:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <9g5i1tFnnbU3@mid.individual.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.109.106.72; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8956 blmblm @ myrealbox. com wrote: > Seems perfectly normal to me to have graphical applications running > on machine A and displaying output on machine B, and I also(?) am > not eager to replace X11 with something that didn't have this > "works across a network" functionality. But I've noticed that > my ideas about a lot of computing-related things seem well out > of the current mainstream, so -- a data point, but perhaps not > a very representative one. Such use of X11 across a network, in particular across SSH, is common and widespread. -- Lew