I'd like to display a photo onto the screen of another box on my lan. VNC seems like a lot of overhead for this simple task. Any other simple ways to do this or help to get me started??
Thanks.

I don't have a system to test on but something like this should work:

(on destination machine)
# xhost+

(on originator)
# export DISPLAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0.0 [ip of target machine]
# xv /path/to/filename

cheers

The XWindow system works by client-server mechanism. The server is the one who has the hardware resources (display,mouse,keyboard).
With a program using the xlib library acting as a client, you can display an image through the network using the X protocol.

So, on the client machine, you set your Xserver to be the remote machine.
and then you display the image.
(But you need to have access to the Xserver)

or

which will pass the authentication to the remote machine

By this, everybody can snoop his display, interact, run commands,.. its a bit dangerous!
Better use xon
or
xhost +allowedmachine

Yes, thanks. Here's what I've done.
Actually I've grabbed a snapshot of the screen on hostA and put it onto the screen on hostB. Makes for a nice remote slideshow.

On hostA:
$> xset IP_Address_of_hostB

Then on hostB (using Imagemagick):
$> import -display ip_address_of_hostA:0 -window root hostA_image.jpg; xloadimage -fullscreen -onroot hostA_image.jpg

Imagemagick does a whole lot of cool stuff for us command line junkies!! The xhost command is what really made it simple. Just not very secure, but for my task, was not an issue.

Thanks for all the feedback.

Sorry to bring back an old thread but this is kind of what I want to do.

I want to open Konqueror from the command line but have it display on a remote PC.

I use SSH to connect to my Linux PCs. I can use VNC to connect to the GUI of my Linux PCs, I can start Konqueror on the remote PC using VNC but I want to be able to start Konqueror from the command line of my local PC and NOT from the command line/GUI of the remote PC. I've seen quite a few thread on this but I can' seem to get it right.


I tried to adapt these commands to my needs but it fails.

On hostA:
$> xset IP_Address_of_hostB

Then on hostB (using Imagemagick):
$> import -display ip_address_of_hostA:0 -window root hostA_image.jpg; xloadimage -fullscreen -onroot hostA_image.jpg



Can anyone point me in the right way? Thansk!