Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:25:47 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting vino remotely Message-ID: <20041108162547.GB19817@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20041108151516.56749.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041108151516.56749.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 07:15:16AM -0800, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> So I had to restart my home box the other day then realized while away th=
at
> I forgot to launch vino-session, so I am unable to VNC to my local deskto=
p.
>=20
> This seems to work me into a corner, as while I can still ssh into the
> computer, I cannot start vino-session from the remote ssh session because=
of
> DISPLAY issues. It insists on running from the local desktop.
>=20
> I've been researching since yesterday and haven't found any suggestions t=
hat
> work. Some posts mention "xhost +localhost" but when I try that I get:
>=20
> X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
That means your ssh(1) session isn't doing X11 forwarding. ssh has he
capability to pose as an X server, usually on localhost:10.0 and
transparently forwards all X session traffic over an encrypted tunnel
back to your desktop display, but only if you enable it.
> I've also tried setting the DISPLAY variable to localhost:0 and
> localhost:0.0 as well as using the --display=3D command line parameter of
> vino-session to no avail.
Don't do that. First of all, as you've already discovered, it doesn't
work. Secondly, you're telling X windows to display on the screen of
the remote machine, which won't be a whole lot of use to you.
Instead, read about the '-X' and '-Y' options in ssh(1) and the
equivalent 'ForwardX11' directive in ssh_config(5).
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
Savill Way
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