If you are sitting at an X-termial connected to banach or cantor, you can connect to other machines and see the output on your X-termnial screen by doing the following. First login to banach or cantor via your X-terminal and type
echo $DISPLAY
to find out what your DISPLAY variable is. Let us suppose that it is
mathXterm28.math.purdue.edu:0.0
Next, type
xhost + omni.cc
(You can replace omni.cc by any machine name on the network.)
To use software on omni.cc and to see the output at your X-terminal, rlogin to omni.cc by typing
rlogin omni.cc
When you get an omni prompt, type
setenv DISPLAY mathXterm28.math:0.0
Now, when you type a command like
xess &
at an omni prompt, the window output gets sent to your X-terminal.
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