lars poulsen wrote: > Hi list. > > Does anybody know of a VNC viewer that works with SHR? > I have a linux machine without monitor to control my music and i would > love to use my freerunner to control this machine.
You don't need VNC for that! VNC would only waste resources, and require a video card on that monitorless machine. The freerunner runs linux, just like your music machine. That means you can control it with ssh, and use X forwarding so that your music apps uses the freerunner display instead of the pc display. On the linux machine: Install sshd if it isn't there already. Most linux distros comes with ssh installed. The freerunner has ssh already, at least if you have SHR. Use this command (in the freerunner terminal) to access the command line on the linux machine: ssh -X u...@linuxmachine Replace "linuxmachine" with the IP address of that machine, or its DNS name if it has one. Replace "user" with a valid username on that machine. If your music apps is a graphical one, then you can run it directly like this: ssh -X u...@linuxmachine musicapp Where "musicapp" is whatever command you need to run on that machine. You can also avoid going through the terminal, by making an icon to launch this command. Create /usr/share/applications/remote.desktop on the freerunner, containing this: [Desktop Entry] Name=Remote xclock Exec=vala-terminal -e ssh -X [email protected] xclock Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=True Icon=vala-terminal Categories=Application This example starts "xclock" on my server, and displays it on the freerunner. It should work with any software, just replace "xclock" with whatever you want to run, and "username" with an existing user on that machine. If you don't want the trouble of typing a password each time you run this, consider setting up ssh with certificates so passwords aren't needed. (A simpler alternative is a password-less account, but then you need to set things up with a firewall so strangers can't log in on your machine and take over.) Helge Hafting _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
