title: Showing mac window on remote xserver(mac is not honoring DISPLAY variable)
body: <p>I have a mac (snow leopard) and a windows7 desktop at work.</p>
  
  <p>The windows desktop is my primary machine.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to get individual mac windows like xterm/finder to show up on windows desktop?</p>
  
  <p>I had tried this couple of months back but couldn't get it to work. I had tried running cygwin Xserver on windows and on mac, I tried couple of command like these:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ DISPLAY=&lt;windows desktop ip address&gt;:0 xterm
  $ DISPLAY=&lt;windows desktop ip address&gt;:0.0 xterm
  $ DISPLAY=&lt;windows desktop ip address&gt; xterm
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but mac didn't want to honor the DISPLAY. The window would show up on the mac itself.</p>
  
  <p>Before I try again, I wanted to know to ask the experts if this is even possible.</p>