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On 5/26/07, Olivier Crête <tester@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> You have two choice, you can use Xvnc (its a pure-vnc X server). Or you |
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> can use something like Xdmcp. |
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> On Sat, 2007-26-05 at 12:07 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > Is it possible to run a complete Gnome desktop from a remote |
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> > location through ssh? I'm not talking about using vnc to watch a |
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> > remote desktop but actually run one remotely and only have it |
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> > displayed here. |
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> > |
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> > Thanks, |
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> > Mark |
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Olivier and all others who responded: |
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Thanks for the info. As always I appreciate it. I have looked at the |
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links everyone provided but I think they are way over my head. I'm |
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looking for an end-user sort of solution here. Thanks in advance for |
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helping me. |
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The issue here, for me, is not running X apps on the remote machine. I |
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do that already. My dad, who is now 78 and happily running Gentoo |
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Linux for over 4 years now, gets by when he has an application problem |
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by asking me to log in and fix things with the app. For instance, when |
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I update Evolution or when he changed ISPs recently I often need to go |
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fix individual configuration items. I do that just running the app |
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over an SSH tunnel with X forwarding turned on. No problems other than |
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the speed. |
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The case I'm looking at now is that either he or my mom will tell me |
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something about what they are seeing their desktop, like a Gnome |
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launcher or some other thing, which isn't working correctly. I want to |
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see what they are seeing. Keep in mind I don't know which account this |
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is until they send me an email. |
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I understand I could do this with VNC. I've done that in the past with |
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my dad sitting at the machine. Unfortunately neither of them seems |
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comfortable starting applications like VNC and often I'm working on |
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this machine when they are not around or have gone to bed. What I want |
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to do is actually log in as one of them, start a Gnome session and see |
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their desktop as they would see it but displayed here 350 miles away |
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in a window on my machine. |
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I'm not *overly* worried about display speed. I understand it will be |
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slow. (Very slow...) I've dealt with that for years now. However I've |
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never been able to fix desktop launchers or configure the Gnome panel |
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for them without them running VNC which just doesn't work. |
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What I'm hoping to find is a simple, end user type description of how |
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to set up to run a remote session like this. I don't currently |
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understand all the technical aspect of these different technologies, |
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like XDMCP, etc., but I figure I'll learn as I go along. (As I always |
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have...) It didn't seem to me that any of the links so far addressed |
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this, or at least at a level that someone like me would understand. |
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However maybe I'm just not understanding the technologies well enough |
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yet to see the answer staring me in the face. |
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Anyway, the simpler the better for me. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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