At 13:09 09/25/2005 -0700, Todd Walton wrote:
[snip]
>If you want to run X (GUI) programs, you can do that, too, but it
>takes some extra set up involving a "ForwardX11" variable. Then, any
>X programs you start on her computer ("gtkpod", for example) will
>appear on your computer, assuming you have X running. I've never done
>this myself, so I can't tell you anything more about it. I would
>think, however, that running all that GUI data back and forth over a
>dialup connection would be a bit painful.
[snip]
or you can run ssh with the -X option, like so
$ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Be warned that running X over a dialup connection may induce thoughts of
suicide, because even with good compression X is a bandwidth hog.
There are alternatives for GUI applications. One is to use VNC or one of
its variants. I use tightVNC <http://www.tightvnc.com>. The other is to use
FreeNX. See <https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/freenx-knx> for initial
details and NoMachine <http://www.nomachine.com> for a demo. FreeNX is
surprisingly usable over a 56kbps connection.
Despite these, you are much better off learning to use the command line
tools to do remote admin work.
Gus
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