Good Bye FC5

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Thu May 11 23:26:05 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 16:36 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 15:07, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>> open in new windows on your display.  What I want is just the
> >>> menu button, though. If it had a name, I'd expect to be able
> >>> to 'ssh -Y remote_machine gnome-menu' or something like that
> >>> and get a working remote menu.
> >> So do what I did with evolution.  Create a script on the remote machine
> >> something like:
> > 
> > I think you are missing the point of what I want.  I want to
> > install a new remote machine and have all of it's programs
> > available from my desktop without knowing ahead of time what
> > is actually installed there.  If a new program is installed
> > on that machine, I want it to show up in the remotely-executed
> > menu like it does if you log in there.  X is designed to let
> > anything run remotely. I don't see why the menu button should
> > be an exception - someone would really have to go out of their
> > way to break it - but I don't know how to invoke it by itself.
> > 
> I have not tested this, buy you could try running gnome-panel on the
> remote machine. I am not sure if it will try and take over your
> desktop. The other thing you can do is to run Xnest, and launch the
> windows manager inside the Xnest window. It will give you a complete
> remote desktop inside the window. (This requires a fast connection
> between the two computers.
> 
Someone elst already said you can use vncviewer for this.
> Mikkel
> -- 
> 
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> 




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