Quoting David Carlson <thecubic at thecubic.net>: > On Thu, April 27, 2006 6:37 pm, Josh Welch wrote: >> Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1024x768x8 > > Xvfb is a dumb server - it is just a buffer in memory - and there's no way > to get a display from it - only screenshots through xwud, which isn't what > you want. > You're right, that wasn't what I was looking for. I don't think it matters for my purposes though. >> X -query jwelch-rhvm > > This asks jwelch-rhvm to do XDCMP, a remote tie between something like a > thin client and a terminal server, but it always will start a new session. > This is probably not what you want either. > This actually was what I was looking for, but I may have been looking for the wrong thing. > If you are just running one application once, just start a server on the > windows host, and then ssh to the machine with X forwarding and start the > application. > > > x-server-host:# ssh -Y -f application-host xterm > > or > > application-host:# DISPLAY=x-server-host:0 xterm > > If that's not what you want, try looking at Xvnc. > Thanks for the info. Josh