Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

[Larry Cook]

Bill Freeman wrote:
> Way back when I was at Digital (as it then was) and before, we used to have
> a tool called 'xon'.  It took as an argument the DNS name or IP address of
> a server on the net, connected to it, started a shell or optionally specified
> command, with the DISPLAY environment variable all set up, and maybe permissions
> as well (probably with xhost rather than .Xauthority).

Try 'xrsh'.  I think it does the same thing.

Larry