[Tkinter-discuss] Opening Tkinter widgets in remote displays

[Chris Niekel]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:42:00AM -0800, Jose Hales-Garcia wrote:
> We're trying to get Tkinter's widgets to appear on an X11 server  
> running remotely.  Is this possible?

Yes, in the normal way, by setting the DISPLAY environment variable.
If you want to do it within the application, you can probably use
os.putenv('DISPLAY', 'other:0') before calling Tkinter.Tk()

Regards,
    Chris