Re: [SLUG] X11 Forwarding over ssh

2008-11-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can someone pls provide me with an idiot's guide to getting X11 running over ssh. Install xauth(1) on the remote machine. Run 'ssh -X remote.host' Run your x11 program. That is to say, I want to be able to ssh into a Linux box from Windows (or MAC or Linux

Re: [SLUG] X11 Forwarding over ssh

2008-11-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Kyle I know I could use VNC, but; 1. I have to be able to use std ports to get thru corporate firewalls and 2. I would like to have that connection secure And as best I can tell VNC doesn't support ssh; not to mention I wouldn't know how to send it through a std port without

Re: [SLUG] X11 Forwarding over ssh

2008-11-16 Thread Owen Townend
2008/11/16 Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Peter, for some clarification please. Peter Chubb wrote: On Linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOSX or other Unices that are running X locally, you do $ ssh -f -X host xterm On the host you need to have X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 in

[SLUG] Desktop integration with Google Calendar and Remember the Milk

2008-11-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I frequently move between computers, and so have found the 'old way' of keeping all my communications and organisation on one computer to be increasingly limiting. Based on recommendations, I've made the effort to migrate to Google Mail, Google Calendar and Remember the Milk. While it's nice to be

Re: [SLUG] Desktop integration with Google Calendar and Remember the Milk

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 17/11/2008, at 12:08 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: So, how does one have their head in the cloud without losing sight of the real world? LSD. Have you heard of CalDAV? It's all shiny and new, but google supports it, and there are linux aps out there. --

Re: [SLUG] X11 Forwarding over ssh

2008-11-16 Thread Kyle
As ever, ask SLUG and you end up with 5 different ways of doing it. :-) Thanks all. I should be able to get at least one of those working. Daniel, most common problem I come across doing it the remote X11 way is no display setup. And never sure which particular variable it is that the

Re: [SLUG] Re: Ubuntu Ibex Network Manager Prepaid Wireless Broadband Question

2008-11-16 Thread Dave Kempe
bill wrote: See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=964920 There seems to be problems with Network Manager. Using the Kubuntu version of Intrepid Ibex I cant connect to my Ntwork LAN. yeah I have been following the bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259278 some very mixed results

Re: [SLUG] X11 Forwarding over ssh

2008-11-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As ever, ask SLUG and you end up with 5 different ways of doing it.:-) Thanks all. I should be able to get at least one of those working. Daniel, most common problem I come across doing it the remote X11 way is no display setup. And never sure which

Re: [SLUG] A command question.

2008-11-16 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Put this into your .bashrc file: function fstr() { OPTIND=1 local case= local usage=fstr: find string in files.\nUsage: fstr [-i] \pattern\ [\filename pattern\] while getopts :it opt do case $opt in i) case=-i ;; *) echo $usage; return;;

Re: [SLUG] Desktop integration with Google Calendar and Remember the Milk

2008-11-16 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: What I want is a desktop reminder similar to what you'd get with Korganiser/Kontact, Evolution and so on - something in-my-face that I can't miss, but with an option to snooze/suspend. It should also not be dependent on a Web browser

Re: [SLUG] X11 Forwarding over ssh

2008-11-16 Thread jam
On Monday 17 November 2008 06:10:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ask SLUG and you end up with 5 different ways of doing it.  :-) Thanks all. I should be able to get at least one of those working. Daniel, most common problem I come across doing it the remote X11 way is no display setup. And

Re: [SLUG] X11 Forwarding over ssh

2008-11-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
jam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 17 November 2008 06:10:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ask SLUG and you end up with 5 different ways of doing it.  :-) Thanks all. I should be able to get at least one of those working. Daniel, most common problem I come across doing it the remote

Re: [SLUG] A command question.

2008-11-16 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/11/17 Jobst Schmalenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Put this into your .bashrc file: function fstr() { OPTIND=1 local case= local usage=fstr: find string in files.\nUsage: fstr [-i] \pattern\ [\filename pattern\] while getopts :it opt ... find . -type f -name ${2:-*}

Re: [SLUG] X11 Forwarding over ssh

2008-11-16 Thread jam
On Monday 17 November 2008 10:00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 17 November 2008 06:10:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ask SLUG and you end up with 5 different ways of doing it.  :-) Thanks all. I should be able to get at least one of those working.