Xwindow session on another computer?

[laika]

Despite being a unix neophyte and a linux newbie, I was able to get Mandrake installed and ShowEQ compiled and running... This program is great! It's made my experience grind camps so much easier by showing the spawn times visually instead of me keeping a clock and a notepad next to the computer! I don't have nearly as many stupid pulls because I forgot about that spawn in the pull-path...

Now for my question...

I'd really like to run ShowEQ on my Macintosh (OS X 10.3) in an X-window, but I'm not sure about the best way to set this up or if it's even possible. I've tried to do some general google searches but it's obvious that I don't even know what questions or search terms to use in order to get to relevant pages.

So my questions are:

1. Is it possible to run ShowEQ in a remote X-Window?

2. I'm very happy to RTFM, but I need to know which FMs to read. :) While a walkthrough would be great to get things up and running, I'd also like to know the background so that I learn more. I enjoyed the process of setting up the box (despite having to download and try four different distros before getting one that worked with my hardware) and would enjoy learning more about X-windows. So where do I start looking to learn more about running X sessions across differing versions/flavors of unix?

3. My linux box is a P3/450 with 512m of ram and a Voodoo 3/3000 card. Performance is acceptable, but not stellar. If I can run an x-window on a significantly more powerful Mac (100 base T network), will I see equal, worse, or better performance?

If the performance is equal or better, I'd love to get rid of the third monitor from my desktop...

Again, I'm not looking for hand-holding (although I'm not going to be mad if someone posts a step-by step ;) ), but I don't know where to begin looking for the right information because I don't know the right terminology.

Thanks!

[S_B_R]

1. Is it possible to run ShowEQ in a remote X-Window?Yes. You'll need an Xwindow server (sometimes called simply an XServer) for OS X, I'm not a mac person so I don't know one off hand. For example XWin32 is a good Xwindow server for Windows. On your Linux box, you'll simply export the display to your OS X box and run SEQ,
export DISPLAY=x.x.x.x:0.0
/usr/local/bin/showeq where x.x.x.x is the IP address of the OS X system.

2. I'm very happy to RTFM, but I need to know which FMs to read. While a walkthrough would be great to get things up and running, I'd also like to know the background so that I learn more. I enjoyed the process of setting up the box (despite having to download and try four different distros before getting one that worked with my hardware) and would enjoy learning more about X-windows. So where do I start looking to learn more about running X sessions across differing versions/flavors of unix?Not much help here, basically your looking for an XWindows server to run on OS X, I'm sure one exists.

3. My linux box is a P3/450 with 512m of ram and a Voodoo 3/3000 card. Performance is acceptable, but not stellar. If I can run an x-window on a significantly more powerful Mac (100 base T network), will I see equal, worse, or better performance?Your not going to see any preformance increase by doing this. In fact you'll probably degrade the performance slightly. Since all the work is still being done on the Linux machine, the output is simply piped to the Mac.

In the end it is actuallly pretty simple, once you find that Xwindows server for OS X. ;)

[Cryonic]

RTFM:

Apple:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/

XFree86:
http://www.xfree86.org/

O'Reilly:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxnut4/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macpantherian/

Fink:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/

That should be enough to make your head spin and get you going where you want to go...

[laika]

Thanks a ton, you two! OS X (10.3.x) has an Xwindows system by default, but I'll need to read up on the server configuration part.

I wish I didn't have to go to sleep - now I want to stay up and tweak. :)

Thanks again!