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Operating Systems AIX xsession for non-root user Post 302533734 by DGPickett on Friday 24th of June 2011 01:05:56 PM
Old 06-24-2011
I am confused. Which on which? Tell me now far you get on this sort of procedure:

In my life, for a virgin situation, I start the X server on the PC and then ssh over there and export $DISPLAY to point to me. Then I fire up an xterm. If you set $SHELL to your favorite, xterm -ls will use it. Then I do a window manager from that xterm and more xterm, xclipboard, etc.

I like a visual bell, big scroll buffer, nice icon and title labels, big windows 80x25 with big font, great for mentoring over my shoulder not to mention my fuzzy eyes.
Code:
$ cat bin/xth
#!/usr/bin/ksh
if [ "${1#[1-9])}" != "$1" ]
then
 zn=$1
 shift
else
 ps -fxu $USER | sed '
        s/.* xterm .* -n \([0-9]*\).*/\1/
        t
        d
        '|sort -nr|read zn
 zn=$(( $zn + 1 ))
fi
cd
export TERM=xterm
nohup xterm -T "${HOST}-$zn" -n $zn -geometry 80x25 -fn 12x24 -sb -sl 99999 -vb -bg white -fg black "$@" &
sleep 1
$

I also use ultravnc viewer and vnc Xvnc on each host, so no desktops, windows or keystrokes are lost if the PC must go away, and only one desktop if a server is rebooted. My $DISPLAY is always ':1.0' !
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

rxterm

RXTERM(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 RXTERM(1)

NAME

     rxterm -- start a secure remote xterm

SYNOPSIS

     rxterm [-l username] [-k] [-r rsh_args] [-x xterm_args] [-K kx_args] [-w term_emulator] [-b rsh_program] host [port]

DESCRIPTION

     The rxterm program starts an xterm window on host host.  From this window you will also be able to run X clients that will be able to connect
     securely to your X server. If port is given, that port will be used instead of the default.

     The supported options are:

     -l      Log in on the remote host as user username.

     -k      Disable keep-alives.

     -r      Send rsh_args as arguments to rsh.

     -x      Send xterm_args as arguments to xterm.

     -X      Send kx_args as arguments to kx.

     -w      Use term_emulator instead of xterm.

     -b      Use rsh_program instead of rsh.

     -v      Be verbose.

EXAMPLE

     To login from host foo (where your display is) to host bar, you might do the following.

     1.   On foo: rxterm bar

     2.   You will get a new window running an xterm on host bar.  In this window you will be able to start X clients.

SEE ALSO

     kx(1), rsh(1), rxtelnet(1), tenletxr(1), kxd(8)

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