On 05/07/2014 09:58 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On 05/06/2014 10:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
... 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?
You can invoke nautilus remotely in either 'spatial' mode or 'file
manager mode.'
...
You may also want to look at the ssh documentation and read up on the
difference between the '-X' command line switch and the '-Y' command
line switch.
Also note that nautilus invoked in this way won't be able to access
'network' resources. However, there is a way, and that is to not
directly launch nautilus, but use 'dbus-launch' to launch it. So, for
'file manager' mode with URI's like dav://, sftp://, etc working you
would need:
dbus-launch nautilus --browser &
This works; I'm using it right now with a remote server doing a copy of
a 50GB or so tree of mp3 audio clips out of a Plone website to the
straight filesystem using WebDAV. Not exactly fast, but it is working.
Yes, this could be done in other ways, but since I was on this topic
already today, I thought I'd try it out.
