Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has played around with displaying X11 applications from a modernish linux install to a Nextstep/OS system using CubX.
Would like to know your experience and any tips. Also curious if NS/OS ever had capability to redirect the display/sound of an app running on one machine to another?
I have a NEXTSTEP 3.3 machine and a Slackware Linux machine in my office. I used to run X apps on the Linux machine and display on the NEXTSTEP machine using Cub'X. It worked very well, but now I have two displays so I haven't needed to use Cub'X.
I've run a Mathematica kernel greater than version 3.0.2 on the Linux machine and used the Mathematica notebook version 3.0.2 on my NEXTSTEP machine to interact with it, but that has nothing to do with Cub'X Windows or any other app; Mathematica does it natively.
NEXTSTEP does have the nxhost command, whereby you can run any app on one NEXTSTEP machine and display/interact with it on another. I don't recall whether sound gets transmitted as well, though, but it would seem strange if it didn't. Unfortunately, nxhost doesn't seem to work with my home network/work firewall setup, so I've been unable to run apps at the office from my home for quite some time.
Thanks for the replay. How dated was your slackware install (I haven't heard that distribution name in like 30 years).
I tried a few years ago with OSX 10.4 on PPC hardware and the X Client install that Apple distributed for it. I couldn't get much of anything to run due to incompatibilities between the age of the client and the newer X11 releases/protocols.
My thought here was just a fun way to maybe bounce some more modern browser/email/apps from a raspberry pi running linux onto my nextstep 3.3 desktop.
I had some time so I tried it again just now. It works fine. My Slackware is 15.0, so the most recent stable release (from 2022). I was able to run okular and display on NEXTSTEP. The main problem for me was getting ssh running between the machines. I have a separate sshd daemon running on the Slackware machine that uses the older ciphers for the version on NEXTSTEP and is listening on a non-standard port and both machines are behind our work firewall. I also use that ssh connection for running rsync backups from NEXTSTEP to the Slackware machine, which has two internal 8TB encrypted SATA disks formatted with btrfs in RAID1, which works very well.
This is great :) thank you for the inspiration.
My desk is fully packed one sgi and two 24inch one for the sgi and the other for my Intel next and my iMac. On the floor I have my sunblade 2000 which I cannot put on top of my desk along with its keyboard and mouse. So in order to access it I use cubix in broadcast mode. Work super fine