[GRLUG] multiple login on Mac

[Roger Roelofs]

Adam,

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Adam  Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 14:22 -0500, Roger Roelofs wrote:
>>  When I'm forced to edit graphics at work ( which I
>> am horrible at BTW) I fire up XQuartz so I can run the gimp.  I've
>> also used XQuartz talking to a remote x server and that works fine.
>
> This lets you export native Quartz apps to a remote display?
Nope,  but you can run an app on a linux/unix server but point the
display variable at the mac.  So, on my mac i can be running XQuartz,
and from xterm I can ssh -X into a linux/unix box and run an X app.
The app's windows show up on my mac.  Again, not a mac experience, but
useful at times.



-- 
Roger

Roger Roelofs
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