jewbster has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey, I'm a sort of a newbie and I was wondering how I could open a program in another workstation using Perl. I have Red Hat 9 and use a GNOME GUI.

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Re: Using the GNOME GUI...
by castaway (Parson) on Jun 07, 2003 at 11:09 UTC
    You'll have to provide some more information on that. Which GUI you use isn't usually an issue at all. The question is, how do you want to open a program on another workstation? Should it run on yours and just display on the other? (In which case you just need to set $ENV{DISPLAY} appropriately.) Or actually run on the other workstation? (Then you need to login remotely somehow, using ssh (Net::SSH), or telnet (Net::Telnet).

    Generally it helps if you know how you'd do it 'normally' (without perl), first.

    C.

Re: Using the GNOME GUI...
by daeve (Deacon) on Jun 07, 2003 at 18:10 UTC
    Are you speaking of remotely opening a program using perl on another machine on the local network or in another "terminal window" on your own machine?

    Daeve