Gnome FreeBSD from putty
Hello Everyone, Any way of running Gnome or Firefox from putty remotely? What's the best way to test for the displays setup, etc? I'd like to keep it really simple for rebooting radios equipment that require a web interface. My first attempt simply so display not configured and am really rusy on my unix. FreeBSD I'm very rusty. Thanks, Tim McGee ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD from putty
On Sunday 23 September 2007 15:35:00 Timothy McGee wrote: Any way of running Gnome or Firefox from putty remotely? What's the best way to test for the displays setup, etc? I'd like to keep it really simple for rebooting radios equipment that require a web interface. My first attempt simply so display not configured and am really rusy on my unix. FreeBSD I'm very rusty. If all you need is access to web interfaces on localhost of the remote machine, setup a portforward and access it with your local browser. Putty being a windows program, you probably won't get remote X to work anyway. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD from putty
On 9/23/07, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 September 2007 15:35:00 Timothy McGee wrote: Any way of running Gnome or Firefox from putty remotely? What's the best way to test for the displays setup, etc? I'd like to keep it really simple for rebooting radios equipment that require a web interface. My first attempt simply so display not configured and am really rusy on my unix. FreeBSD I'm very rusty. If all you need is access to web interfaces on localhost of the remote machine, setup a portforward and access it with your local browser. Putty being a windows program, you probably won't get remote X to work anyway. Not true. Install Cygwin/X on your local machine (http://x.cygwin.com/), configure PuTTY to forward X11 packets, login to the server and run firefox. Depending on your exact configuration, you may need to tinker with the settings a bit. Usually, however, it works with no additional effort. - Max ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD from putty
On Sunday 23 September 2007, Maxim Khitrov wrote: Not true. Install Cygwin/X on your local machine (http://x.cygwin.com/), configure PuTTY to forward X11 packets, login to the server and run firefox. Depending on your exact configuration, you may need to tinker with the settings a bit. Usually, however, it works with no additional effort. Agreed! As a complete noob to running remote apps, I had it going in minutes from a WinXP laptop with putty/cygwin/X. As you say, just tick/check the X11 forwarding box in Putty. Although the OP mentioned Gnome. Not sure if you could run a whole desktop over it or even if that would be desirable. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD from putty
On Sunday 23 September 2007 18:54:28 dgmm wrote: On Sunday 23 September 2007, Maxim Khitrov wrote: Not true. Install Cygwin/X on your local machine (http://x.cygwin.com/), configure PuTTY to forward X11 packets, login to the server and run firefox. Depending on your exact configuration, you may need to tinker with the settings a bit. Usually, however, it works with no additional effort. Agreed! As a complete noob to running remote apps, I had it going in minutes from a WinXP laptop with putty/cygwin/X. As you say, just tick/check the X11 forwarding box in Putty. Sure that works. As you can also take a plane to visit the neighbors. Although the OP mentioned Gnome. Not sure if you could run a whole desktop over it or even if that would be desirable. If you're on a local network, it can be convenient to control the entire desktop in the few cases where programs can only be controlled via GUI, but for configuring a few web-enabled interfaces, it will take you 10 times longer then just forwarding the control port and using a local browser. Aside from that, last time I tried (a few years back), at least the window manager needs to be installed locally for truly forwarded X11 connections, you can't be logged in under X as that user on the remote machine and by the time I had cygwin setup and working, I would've configured cups 3 times over on the remote machine, using a simple port forward. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD from putty
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:35:00 -0700 Timothy McGee wrote: Any way of running Gnome or Firefox from putty remotely? What's the best way to test for the displays setup, etc? I'm not too sure, what you are trying to do here. If you want to run a program or an entire desktop on one computer and have the display on another computer, that isn't all that difficult. Look at this text: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-X-Apps.html Unlike the others in this thread, I recommend the use Xming as the Server. Cygwin is not really being maintained anymore. Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD
Michael S wrote: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) by not installing KDE. I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at all? Thanks in advance, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may want to look at XFCE which many of the FreeBSD people use as a GUI. Lean and efective. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:11:39 -1000, NetOpsCenter wrote: You may want to look at XFCE which many of the FreeBSD people use as a GUI. Lean and efective. I'm a big fan of Blackbox - it's not as 'pretty' as XFCE but is easy to use and lean. All your graphical apps will still work fine in it, providing you install their deps of course. joel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:11:54 -0400 (EDT) Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all for the suggestions. I am going to take into consideration everything everyone wrote. Michael --- P.U.Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) by not installing KDE. I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at all? There is a minimal gnome installation in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite you can start with that and - if you like it - add all the the other stuff. One caveat: First install /usr/ports/x11/xorg (i.e. xorg-7.2) and check if your monitor and graphics card are set up correctly. Greetings, Uli. I'd suggest you also give xfce a try (http://xfce.org), it's also GTK based, and lighter than gnome/kde, while still having plenty of features. -- Regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD
Michael S skrev: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) by not installing KDE. I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at all? Thanks in advance, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A while back on this list I read about fluxbox so I decided to try it out. I like it very much, it's very lightweight and very flexible. It's in the ports tree if you want to have a look. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD I forgot
On 20/08/07, Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to say in my last massage. The good compromise between Gnome (KDE) full blown desktop and ***Box X window managers is Xfce. Xfce is only about 15Mb vs Gnome(KDE)~200Mb. ~ ls -ls /usr/local/bin/evilwm 28 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 28088 May 29 04:36 /usr/local/bin/evilwm Very fast, very responsive, and the desktop (being essentially what you put into ~/.xinitrc) is extremely configurable, although, to be fair, if you leave it running for a couple of weeks it might eat up 6 or 7 seconds of CPU time. I suppose a post-script would be that it could not possibly be called a compromise and likely won't be called good by very many. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD
Thank you all for the suggestions. I am going to take into consideration everything everyone wrote. Michael --- P.U.Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) by not installing KDE. I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at all? There is a minimal gnome installation in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite you can start with that and - if you like it - add all the the other stuff. One caveat: First install /usr/ports/x11/xorg (i.e. xorg-7.2) and check if your monitor and graphics card are set up correctly. Greetings, Uli. Thanks in advance, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome FreeBSD
Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) by not installing KDE. I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at all? Thanks in advance, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD
Michael S wrote: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) by not installing KDE. I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at all? Thanks in advance, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I run Gnome 2.18 full version compiled from ports + fifth toe + gnome office +etc in another words everything. Computer is home made Intel Core 2 Duo E 4300 2x512 Kb RAM dual channel memory DDR2 667. The machine is our main home computer used by my wife and my mother in law (people with some Windows experience and no real knowledge to speak of). They find it easier to use than Windows machines they have at work. So far stability of Gnome is extraordinary. I have not observed any applications hanging except usual problems with licking of sound card. With little bit of configuration rc.conf, devfs.conf and fstab which I am more than happy to provide to you everything works out of box. All multimedia, printing, scanning, cameras, webcam, xchat, vnc works flawlessly with exception of sound recording (Skype) due to the fact that I am using OSS compiled from ports for my audio card and I am reading documentation how to set up mixer and recorder. I might also get another audio card because VoIP is very important to me. Computer fells faster then working on KDE (Original installation was PC-BSD) Also it feels significantly faster then my Ubuntu desktop at the University. I have to admit though that my machine at home has slightly better hardware. On another look, I do use OpenBox 3 with the help of pypanel and Rox-filler manager on one older machine. It feels faster than any desktop I use at the University or at home so it is your choice. I really think that Gnome BSD team did grate job to bring FreeBSD to level grand ma users. On another hand for pure productivity I have to say that good WM is still probably better choice. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) by not installing KDE. I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at all? There is a minimal gnome installation in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite you can start with that and - if you like it - add all the the other stuff. One caveat: First install /usr/ports/x11/xorg (i.e. xorg-7.2) and check if your monitor and graphics card are set up correctly. Greetings, Uli. Thanks in advance, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD I forgot
Predrag Punosevac wrote: Michael S wrote: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) by not installing KDE. I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at all? Thanks in advance, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I run Gnome 2.18 full version compiled from ports + fifth toe + gnome office +etc in another words everything. Computer is home made Intel Core 2 Duo E 4300 2x512 Kb RAM dual channel memory DDR2 667. The machine is our main home computer used by my wife and my mother in law (people with some Windows experience and no real knowledge to speak of). They find it easier to use than Windows machines they have at work. So far stability of Gnome is extraordinary. I have not observed any applications hanging except usual problems with licking of sound card. With little bit of configuration rc.conf, devfs.conf and fstab which I am more than happy to provide to you everything works out of box. All multimedia, printing, scanning, cameras, webcam, xchat, vnc works flawlessly with exception of sound recording (Skype) due to the fact that I am using OSS compiled from ports for my audio card and I am reading documentation how to set up mixer and recorder. I might also get another audio card because VoIP is very important to me. Computer fells faster then working on KDE (Original installation was PC-BSD) Also it feels significantly faster then my Ubuntu desktop at the University. I have to admit though that my machine at home has slightly better hardware. On another look, I do use OpenBox 3 with the help of pypanel and Rox-filler manager on one older machine. It feels faster than any desktop I use at the University or at home so it is your choice. I really think that Gnome BSD team did grate job to bring FreeBSD to level grand ma users. On another hand for pure productivity I have to say that good WM is still probably better choice. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, I forgot to say in my last massage. The good compromise between Gnome (KDE) full blown desktop and ***Box X window managers is Xfce. Xfce is only about 15Mb vs Gnome(KDE)~200Mb. I was first time exposed to it by using FreeSBIE. It is slightly less responsive on FreeSBIE than Fluxbox(700Kb) which one should expect but seems remarkably fast for a full Desktop running from the LIVE CD. Real eye candy and it has everything you need as a default installation. It is really very good. I ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
