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]
