Re: remote x session
Jonathan Horne wrote: well, the part i didnt mention before, was the method behind the madness. its actually a jail-host, with 3 jails running. my intention, is to keep the latest of kde, gnome, and xfce built on each, and just remotely attach to (or forward) its x session from my main workstation. i vision it basically working just like when i sit down to my workstation, and type 'startx'. cheers, Hmmm well may I ask why you want such a setup ? The only advantages I can see are to keep your main-workstation free of the builds for your WMs and the fact that your main system remains somewhat cleaner. But I doubt it will weigh up against the time-costs for your X11 forwarding ? Or am I missing something ? Regards, -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote x session
On Thursday 27 December 2007 02:35:05 am Steve Franks wrote: Perhaps I misunderstand, but I use x11vnc on the 'server' and vncviewer or tightvnc on the 'client'. There are several pages to google on tunneling it thru ssh, and it's much better with latency than sending x iteslf over ssh, I'm told. If you start x11vnc with no options, it will export the current session/desktop, but there is a switch to have it spawn a new x session also. All the other vnc ports only spawn new sessions, and I usually use it to help my wife fix problems when I'm away at the office ;) Best, Steve well ultimately, im looking for something that i can operate a headless server with. the server itself wouldnt be pre-logged into any x session (be it kde, gnome, xfce or whatever), so thats why im trying to get its x session into a window of my local desktop. i need to read up on x11vnc, and if it would do that, then i would open to looking at that to fill my need. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org freebsd08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dfwlp.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote x session
On Dec 30, 2007 7:16 PM, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2007 02:35:05 am Steve Franks wrote: Perhaps I misunderstand, but I use x11vnc on the 'server' and vncviewer or tightvnc on the 'client'. There are several pages to google on tunneling it thru ssh, and it's much better with latency than sending x iteslf over ssh, I'm told. If you start x11vnc with no options, it will export the current session/desktop, but there is a switch to have it spawn a new x session also. All the other vnc ports only spawn new sessions, and I usually use it to help my wife fix problems when I'm away at the office ;) Best, Steve well ultimately, im looking for something that i can operate a headless server with. the server itself wouldnt be pre-logged into any x session (be it kde, gnome, xfce or whatever), so thats why im trying to get its x session into a window of my local desktop. There is the XDMCP option, which allows you to remotely connect to an X display manager for full, remote display sessions. This isn't regarded to be a secure solution by most people. If your remote system is a server, do you have a need for remote desktop access? If you have one or two X applications on the remote server, could you just get by with SSH X11 forwarding to access those applications from your management station's display? DS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote x session
On Sunday 30 December 2007 09:00:27 pm Darren Spruell wrote: There is the XDMCP option, which allows you to remotely connect to an X display manager for full, remote display sessions. This isn't regarded to be a secure solution by most people. If your remote system is a server, do you have a need for remote desktop access? If you have one or two X applications on the remote server, could you just get by with SSH X11 forwarding to access those applications from your management station's display? DS well, the part i didnt mention before, was the method behind the madness. its actually a jail-host, with 3 jails running. my intention, is to keep the latest of kde, gnome, and xfce built on each, and just remotely attach to (or forward) its x session from my main workstation. i vision it basically working just like when i sit down to my workstation, and type 'startx'. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [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: remote x session
Perhaps I misunderstand, but I use x11vnc on the 'server' and vncviewer or tightvnc on the 'client'. There are several pages to google on tunneling it thru ssh, and it's much better with latency than sending x iteslf over ssh, I'm told. If you start x11vnc with no options, it will export the current session/desktop, but there is a switch to have it spawn a new x session also. All the other vnc ports only spawn new sessions, and I usually use it to help my wife fix problems when I'm away at the office ;) Best, Steve On Dec 24, 2007 9:05 AM, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ? cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote x session
Jonathan Horne skrev: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ? cheers, You might want to look at WDM and Fluxbox. There are alot of other window managwers of course but these 2 have small overhead and run very nice. Read more at http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php/WDM . There are some tips in the mailing list archive for these to get you started as well. Greetings from Sweden /Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
remote x session
i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ? cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [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: remote x session
On 12/24/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ? cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you forward X through ssh? Or is that not what you are looking for? thanks, j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote x session
On Monday 24 December 2007 01:11:12 pm Jeremy Gransden wrote: On 12/24/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ? cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you forward X through ssh? Or is that not what you are looking for? thanks, j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i did finally get ssh to forwared X, but it only worked with ssh -Y [host] im not sure yet why ssh -X doesnt work, but ive not yet finished reading about the ins and outs of what security settings im overriding with the -Y. i was able to start xclock as a test. but what i would really like to be able to accomplish, would be to get the entire 'startx' to work over an ssh session, and have it open as another window on my desktop. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [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: remote x session
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Monday 24 December 2007 01:11:12 pm Jeremy Gransden wrote: On 12/24/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ? cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you forward X through ssh? Or is that not what you are looking for? thanks, j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i did finally get ssh to forwared X, but it only worked with ssh -Y [host] im not sure yet why ssh -X doesnt work, but ive not yet finished reading about the ins and outs of what security settings im overriding with the -Y. i was able to start xclock as a test. but what i would really like to be able to accomplish, would be to get the entire 'startx' to work over an ssh session, and have it open as another window on my desktop. cheers, Is vnc not an option then ? -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote X session fonts question
Maarten Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My wifes laptop is too aged to work at an acceptable speed. I have converted it to a remote X terminal (over ssh) and that works like a charm. Only application that behaves funny is Openoffice.org.1.1.5. For some reason the fonts in the menus get too much space around them. Has anyone a clue on in which direction I should look? Do I need to setup a font server? Do the xorg.conf fonts sections need to be absolutly equal? An application can only use fonts which the X server knows about. The laptop has its own X server, and needs the fonts that you want to use. A font server is one way to do that; installing the fonts on the laptop directly would be another. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
remote X session fonts question
Hi, My wifes laptop is too aged to work at an acceptable speed. I have converted it to a remote X terminal (over ssh) and that works like a charm. Only application that behaves funny is Openoffice.org.1.1.5. For some reason the fonts in the menus get too much space around them. Has anyone a clue on in which direction I should look? Do I need to setup a font server? Do the xorg.conf fonts sections need to be absolutly equal? Etc. Thanks, Maarten ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
