Slack and root access to X server

[Ken Moffat]

Bill Campbell wrote:

>I find it far easier to run X clients with ssh than dealing with the
>$DISPLAY variable and xhosts, not to mention more secure (as if X without
>ssh were at all secure :-).
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This is good advice. Open a terminal, "ssh -X servername" to your 
"servername", then just run "openoffice". If ssh_config has forwarding 
set up yes you're in business. You can check by typing "echo $DISPLAY". 
You should get something like "localhost:0.10" if it's working.

This assumes you're logged in as a user on the client machine that 
matches your user on the host.