November 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
24h 11m
English
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OSX2X
These days, it’s fairly common to find a Mac sitting next to a Linux or Unix system running an X11-based desktop. You may also have more than one Mac on your desk. In such situations, it would be convenient to use only one keyboard and mouse to control all of your Mac OS X and X11-based desktops, saving valuable desktop space. Enter Michael Dales’ free BSD-licensed application osx2x (http://opendarwin.org/projects/osx2x/).
To use this handy little application, log into your Linux/Unix box running an X11 server, and enter the command:
xhost + mymachost
Then, double-click the osx2x application, and once the main window appears, click New Connection to open a drop-down window. In the drop-down window’s Hostname field, supply the hostname or IP address of the Unix box running the X11 desktop, followed by either :0 or :0.0 (without any spaces), as in myhost
:0.0. Next, select the Edge detection (East, West, North, or South), and the connection type X11. If, on the other hand, you are connecting your Mac to a machine running a VNC (Virtual Network Computer, described in the next section) server (for example, another Mac), select VNC as the Connection type rather than X11, and enter the VNC server password. You can switch back and forth between the Mac and the remote machine with Control-T, or you can enable edge detection and choose the position of your X11 system relative to your Mac. For example, if your Mac is to the right of your destination X11 machine, select West as illustrated ...
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