Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 01:23:59 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remote x-window Message-ID: <9BA4D4B1-2B06-4FD4-89B4-13181457C490@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200602022149.17302.akbeech@alaskaparadise.com> References: <200602022149.17302.akbeech@alaskaparadise.com>
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On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: > I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote > machine with > x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right > direction as > I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the > machine. > > Beech > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - akbeech@alaskaparadise.com > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel > \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 > X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 > / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- For strictly a X11 forwarded solution, do something like the following: user@local_host $ ssh -CY user@remote_host user@remote_host $ twm& # or xfwm4 or something else like that. For a VNC solution, I suggest using x11vnc. By using SSH forwarding and compression you can easily attach to a preexisting desktop session. -Garrett
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