On May 9, 2004, at 6:10 pm, Adrian Simmons wrote: > > I'm now looking for easier ways for my better half to launch X11 > applications when using forwarded X11. I'm assuming the Applications > menu of Apple X11 is a non-starter - how would you tell it the path to > a > application on a different machine when you have no disks mounted from > that machine? I think it takes the path from the user's login profile on that machine. That is to say the user's .bash_profile, .basrc or whatever that system uses. `man ssh` says: ssh [-l login_name] hostname | user at hostname [command] DESCRIPTION ssh (SSH client) is a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands on a remote machine. Note the "command" option - certainly X11's Applications menu seems to work here. See http://compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org/Mac/ThisWorksHere.pdf [1] I have, however, had less success starting a kde / QT application in this way - it looks like those libraries may try to do something clever writing their stderr to the terminal. Opening an ssh sesson & typing `rekall` once logged in works fine, but `ssh -X compaq rekall` causes the application to open missing some buttons & menus. I have not played with this, however, as I only tried it in order to reply to your message. HTH, Stroller. [1] Apache seems to be moody on my machine ATM, so if you 404 let me know & I'll kick it.