[ilugd] ssh on a different virtual console

2007-08-22 Thread Vikas Rawal
I would like to run an x-server on a separate virtual console (control+alt+f12), open an x-term there, ssh to the server, and start gnome. That should give me access to two different machines on two virtual consoles (my local machine on ctrl+alt+f7 and remote machine on ctrl+alt+f12). This

Re: [ilugd] ssh on a different virtual console

2007-08-22 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, On 8/22/07, Vikas Rawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to run an x-server on a separate virtual console (control+alt+f12), If you already have X running and a desktop environment running on F7, you can start a new one on F8 (from the console in F1, for example) using: startx --

Re: [ilugd] ssh on a different virtual console

2007-08-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vikas Rawal wrote: I would like to run an x-server on a separate virtual console (control+alt+f12), open an x-term there, ssh to the server, and start gnome. That should give me access to two different machines on two virtual consoles (my local

Re: [ilugd] ssh on a different virtual console

2007-08-22 Thread Vikas Rawal
If you already have X running and a desktop environment running on F7, you can start a new one on F8 (from the console in F1, for example) using: This opens the desktop environment of the local machine. I was thinking of starting it from the remote machine so that I would get the start menu

Re: [ilugd] ssh on a different virtual console

2007-08-22 Thread Vikas Rawal
gdmflexiserver ? Don't know what is that. Will check. Although why you won't use screen within your local machine's terminal is a question :) You are perhaps right. That is simpler and straight forward. Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist --