On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:32:34 +0000, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> Question: Has anybody ever, in the history of X11, actually run the
> display on a different machine to the one where the program is?
> 
> I realise that X11 *can* do this (hypothetically), but does anybody ever
> use it? From what I've seen, everybody actually uses VNC instead.

Yes, I use it fairly regularly here at home.  For example, ssh'ing to 
another local machine and running an application remotely.  In fact, I 
did it just last night, running YaST's QT interface remotely to update a 
firewall config.

Jim
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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