OpenMoko Neo1973 Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
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X Terminal

The Neo, which is running an XServer, can act as an XTerminal, where we use it to display the windows for an application running on another, usually more powerful, host running X/Windows applications on the network. Thus, we might run a web browser or OpenOffice on a remote computer, but display the windows on the Neo.

To do this we first tell the Neo to allow any hosts to display on its screen with the xhost command on the Neo:

neo$ export DISPLAY=:0
neo$ xhost +
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host

This is not necessarily a good idea, as it then allows any host on the network to display on the Neo screen, or even capture what is being displayed on the Neo's screen, but for short bursts it is probably okay.

On the host computer we need to tell the applications to display to the Neo, which has a network address of 192.168.0.202, and we will display on screen 0:

DISPLAY=192.168.0.202:0 gxine myvideo.mpg

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