From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 9grid: is it available now? Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:30:00 -0600 From: andrey mirtchovski In-Reply-To: <42F6B303.1050908@golubovsky.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 743e0ef2-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > I had similar problem with 9grid.de, and Cristoph kindly pointed me out > to the function in drawterm that checked for locality of the X display. > As this is exactly my situation that X server runs on a separate > computer (i. e. X-terminal), so I added an option to drawterm to bypass > this check. drawterm will happily connect when not running on the local display if you supply '-n' as an argument at the command line. of course you'll need a program that can do netkey authentication so you won't have to transmit your password in plain text, but there are several of those available on the net. it's a feature, not a bug.