On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Helge Hafting <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Hi, That was a nice tutorial. There might be something with the scaling that seems a little off but thanks a lot anyway. regards, _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
