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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The X server allows different clients to display their X applications on it. X applications means graphical windowed applications in unix/linux. Thus, the application process is resident on the client side, but its display and I/O interaction is resident on the server side.<br />
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==Example==<br />
In this example we will pop up a windowed clock on a X server based system whose ip address is''server_ip'':<br />
===X server side===<br />
Usually you sit behind the X server side:<br />
> startx<br />
> printenv | grep DISPLAY<br />
> xhosts + <client_ip><br />
Simply note down the value of the environment variable DISPLAY for future reference.<br />
===X client side===<br />
Connect to the client side using ssh<br />
> ssh <client_ip><br />
Then perform the following commands using the previously annotated value for the DISPLAY environment variable<br />
> export DISPLAY= server_ip:port.number<br />
> xclock<br />
or<br />
> xclock -display server_ip:port.number<br />
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And lo, a clock should have popped up in your X server terminal! Neat, uh?<br />
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==External References==<br />
*[http://www.hungry.com/~jamie/xexport.html Background]<br />
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