Re: Remote linux desktop access
---- Original Message -----
From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: Remote linux desktop access
> Quoting "Antonio Rafael C. Paiva" <arpaiva@cnel.ufl.edu>:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Does anyone know how to have X access remotely through ssh?
> > If I open a terminal and connect using ssh I can open specific
> > application but not the whole desktop environment, that I would like
> > to map to a different display on my machine.
> > (I'm using X.org.)
> >
>
> You misunderstand how X forwarding works. The X server runs on your
> machine. The clients (running locally or remotely) display on to your
> X server. If you
> want remote X apps to show up on a different display, then simply start up
> another X server on another display (e.g., :1 if :0 is already in use).
>
> Now, if you are interedted in getting an entire desktop session (and not
just
> one or two apps) across an SSH connection, then you need to look into
> something
> like VNC. There are variants which work through a web browser, a regular
SSH
> connection and so on. You can also create a new (virtual) display that is
> exported or stay logged in and export your real display (:0).
>
> -Roberto
>
Or you can start a KDE session using startkde. Assuming you can already
start other X apps, this should provide a complete KDE environment. I
think you can do the same for gnome using gnome-session.
Doug
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