Re: How to run X over SSH?

[Raymundo Vega <rmvega san rr com>]

What you need is a Xwindows package running on your laptop,
after you have it, then login on the server (putty with
Xwindows forwarding? ssh -X if you run one unix flavor)
and then in the server shell:

echo $DISPLAY
xterm &

the echo command should display something like: localhost:0.0
if the result of the echo line is something like :0.0
the xterm will be displayed at the monitor on the server.

Consider that it is possible that your server is *not* running
Xwindows and in such case the result of echo is an empty line.

hope this helps

raymundo

Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> Can you run Linux on your machine?
>
> js
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 19:57, Leo Huang wrote:
>
> > Cameron,
> >
> > I'm running a RH8.0 as a server, and now I'm maintaining it over a
> > text-based ssh terminal on my notebook. Sometimes things are getting
> > complicated because of it is text-based. I want to run X on my notebook to
> > simplize my work.
> > Please tell me what I need to do.
> >
> > Leo
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Cameron Davidson csiro au>
> > To: <redhat-list redhat com>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 5:34 PM
> > Subject: RE: How to run X over SSH?
> >
> >
> >
> > > Leo Huang <mailto:rhlist cenrik com> wrote on Thursday, 30 January 2003
> > > 17:46:
> > >
> > >
> > > > > From Cameron's response, It seems I have to install
> > > >
> > > > something on my local
> > > > machines??
> > > >
> > > > Leo
> > >
> > >
> > > Leo,
> > > I think you should describe what X programs you want to run and why
> > > you need to tunnel the X. Perhaps there are other ways of doing it.
> > > for example VNC might be suitable.
> > >
> > > If you have a slow connection somewhere in between your client and
> > > server then it won't be a very pleasant experience,
> > > although X will generally be faster than VNC.
> > >
> > > If you are going to go the trouble of installing cygwin to get the
> > > XFree-86 server then you might find you can get some of the X
> > > applications to run directly on the PC (possibly still as X clients).
> > >
> > > You could try the demo version of X-Win32 from www.starnet.com.
> > >
> > > Cameron.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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