On 05/06/2014 07:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Thanks for the information. At my institution, we were told by the university network security group that after ssh -X, one still needed to "activate" X for the session by xinit or the like for security reasons. Evidently, the persons were thinking of some other environment (MS Windows perhaps?). Indeed, xeyes and firefox both work fine from the remote host to the local client workstation.
You are welcome.
A question: as a regular X window manager desktop from the remote machine is not displayed (that is, the pull down menu "Applications" under Gnome or the equivalent from KDE), is there any mechanism to get such a menu, etc., displayed? What is the default GUI file manager (that allows an end user to "point and click" on an executable file to execute the application) that can be invoked from a remote terminal?
Hi Yasha, I tried that with Xfce. I had blocks all over everywhere. What a mess! Needless to say ... As an alternative, when I want a whole desktop, I have used XRDP on the remote machine and rdesktop on the local machine to contact it. Works really stick. I have written myself references for both. I will post them if you need them. -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
