display-tele(7)

display-tele7

Forwards the display over a network

Usage

display-tele: [inet]:<host>[:port]
display-tele: unix:<file>

Overview

The tele target forwards the display over a network via TCP to a remote host.

A ggiteleserver(1) must be running on the remote host where the final display resides. A normal GGI applications will then use the tele target to forward all graphic operations to the machine running the teleserver.

Options

The argument to display-tele is the display to connect to, it has the format <type>:<specifier>. The available types are inet and unix. The specifier for type inet has the format hostname:port, and for type unix, it is a file. Some examples:

- GGI_DISPLAY=tele:inet:localhost:27780
- GGI_DISPLAY=tele::192.168.1.2:27780 (inet is the default)
- GGI_DISPLAY=tele:unix:/tmp/.tele0

Features

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DirectBuffer never supported.

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Accelerated if the remote display is.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0–6.0

From libggi2 1:2.2.2-5 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.