Can you open a program from a remote machine on yours?

[The Switch Blade]

For example, can I ssh into my other machine and run an instance of gedit/firefox/whatever and see it on this machine?

[andrewc6l]

The easy way is to install a VNC server on the remote machine, then install a VNC client on your local machine.

The hard way (if both machines run X Window System) is to set the permissions on the local machine to allow X connections from the remote machine, then ssh to the remote machine and set your DISPLAY environment variable to (name of local machine):0.0, then run X programs from the command line.

[scrooge_74]

For example, can I ssh into my other machine and run an instance of gedit/firefox/whatever and see it on this machine?

Yup, you only need to do ssh -XC ip_of_server then you can launch firefox or something else (if you have X running in that server obviously)

I run Kb3, firefox, VirtualBox and a few other stuff


As for using a VNC server you can install vnc4server a little setting and you are on your way. As for a VNC client Gnome has one already installed check Apps > Internet > Terminal Server client

You can use it for vnc protocol and for vrdp (for when using Virtual PCs)

Have fun!

[juancarlospaco]

Try this in your machine:

ssh -X $USER@127.0.0.1 nautilus

in example is a loopback on yourself to run nautilus...

[CatKiller]

Yup, you only need to do ssh -XC ip_of_server then you can launch firefox or something else (if you have X running in that server obviously)

As a heads-up, you don't necessarily need the -C option.

-C Requests compression of all data (including stdin, stdout,
stderr, and data for forwarded X11 and TCP connections). The
compression algorithm is the same used by gzip(1), and the
“level” can be controlled by the CompressionLevel option for pro‐
tocol version 1. Compression is desirable on modem lines and
other slow connections, but will only slow down things on fast
networks. The default value can be set on a host-by-host basis
in the configuration files; see the Compression option.

[scrooge_74]

As a heads-up, you don't necessarily need the -C option.

-C option good if using stuff over wifi or over long distance into a slow network compressing data never killed anyone

[CatKiller]

-C option good if using stuff over wifi or over long distance into a slow network compressing data never killed anyone

Of course. That was my point. Where your bandwidth is limited, it makes sense to use compression. When your bandwidth isn't limited - over a local network, say - the compression/decompression steps just slows the transfer.

[scrooge_74]

Yup I tried not using the -C but if I try to run virtual machines over wifi from server is better to use it

[XCan]

Actually, I'm running X forwarding plenty. And I can say that it's very easy for me to max out our 100 Mbit network even in apps not considered to be graphics intensive without the -C flag. Some repeated scrolling up and down in an editor maxes it out for me. With graphics intensive apps, it can sit there for minutes to transfer the data as well.

[3rdalbum]

Yup I tried not using the -C but if I try to run virtual machines over wifi from server is better to use it

I'll keep that in mind, I never knew of the -C option.

How does -XC differ from -Y? Apparently -Y works better than just -X.