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ssh momsmachine
export DISPLAY=localhost:0
xload &

and see if a white box pops up on your mom's display.  If so, you should 
be able to substitute "xload &" with "any_X_program &".

Best regards,
CB



Jay Loden wrote:

>I have some machines I have ssh access to (e.g. my mother's machine).  I was 
>wondering if there is anyway I could, for example, do something like launch a 
>browser window (let's say konqueror, for example) and have it show up in her 
>session.  
>
>I don't know much about how sessions are divided in Linux, so I'm not sure how 
>this works.  If I want to open a copy of AbiWord on my mother's machine so 
>she can see it launched, is there any way to do that via ssh? (not vnc, I 
>know how to do that)
>
>If I log in as my mom and run a program, it automatically forwards the X 
>windows to my machine where I'm sshed in, and I would prefer in some 
>instances to open the window on her logged in session that's she's looking at 
>in front of the screen. 
>
>-Jay
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