[K12OSN] XHost

[Peter Scheie]

GUI apps should work fine in a VNC session; that's the whole point.  Try 
to figure out why they aren't working.  Is it any GUI app that doesn't 
work?  All GUI apps?  What happens if you call the app through a 
terminal session running within VNC?  Can you SSH to the host, with 
ForwardX11 turned on (use a -X with the ssh command) and run GUI apps?

Petre

Joe Korzeniewski wrote:
> A while back I noticed that I couldn't open gui apps though vnc. I used the following hack in my /etc/profile to make it work temporarily and then went about my business. Recently, I read in the fl_teachertool doc that it is bad practice to do this. Anybody have a better (more secure) means to the same end? I am using k12ltsp5. This is what I had:
> 
> xhost +public ip address
> xhost +private ip address
> 
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