X -query control

parisjackson · 12-16-2004, 11:24 PM

Hello,

I am using the command
X :1 -query remote.ip
to get a remote X session launched from my Fedora laptop to our Solaris box.
It works great except that my whole monitor space is used for the remote session and I can't seem to switch back to my local machine. Does anyone know how to control the session?

Thanks.

bastard23 · 12-16-2004, 11:45 PM

Can you Ctrl-Alt-F7 back to your local session?

Do you really need a full session on the Solaris box, or just certain apps.

r0b0 · 12-17-2004, 05:07 AM

If you are already running X server and X apps on your laptop, you can use Xnest to connect to the solaris server.
Xnest is an X server running in a window (as an X client).
So start your x-session locally and in an xterm run
Xnest -query remote.ip

parisjackson · 12-17-2004, 02:57 PM

yse I can ctrl-alt F7 out of the session, but then how do i get back in it?

r0b0 · 12-19-2004, 04:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by parisjackson
yse I can ctrl-alt F7 out of the session, but then how do i get back in it?

ctrl-alt-F8 i suppose

parisjackson · 12-19-2004, 10:09 AM

Thanks alot for all the help - Xnest is right what I was looking for.
:-)