Running X Over The Network

[clofland]

At one time, I think on RC11, I was able to run, I THINK, openbox, remotely. I'm not sure what I ran, but the result was that I got the entire window manager onto my local machine from the Z. Looked similar to VNC, but worked a lot better. However, on beta2, I just get a lot of errors when I try to run openbox redirected to another machine.

Am I crazy? I know I did it, but I'm not really sure how. It wasn't VNC, it was x.

[Meanie]

At one time, I think on RC11, I was able to run, I THINK, openbox, remotely. I'm not sure what I ran, but the result was that I got the entire window manager onto my local machine from the Z. Looked similar to VNC, but worked a lot better. However, on beta2, I just get a lot of errors when I try to run openbox redirected to another machine.

Am I crazy? I know I did it, but I'm not really sure how. It wasn't VNC, it was x.
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you probably had to remove the "-nolisten tcp" argument from startx or it wasnt there in the rc before.

[Antikx]

you' are right on windows, free there is xdeep32 tutorial here:
http://www.it.uu.se/datordrift/faq/hemarbete/xdeep32

and cygwin xserver, note that with cygwin ssh -X is broken, but you can use ssh -Y
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I just tried Xdeep. Wow. Sure works well, thanks. Using SSH gives me piece of mind over VNC and RD. Took 5 Min to get up and running (that's the way it should be).
I used ReflectionX back in the Redhat 7 or 8 erra, and it worked well but I couldn't afford to buy it.

Now I can use KO/Pi (installed on my Zaurus) on my Windows Laptop. Nice!
It's a nice answer to the sync problem, in case anyone is looking for a solution still.

[Antikx]

hmmm... from playing around with it a bit more there seems to be a problem with KOrganizer. The first time I create a calendar entry or ToDo it works fine, but everytime after that (untill I restart the xdeep server) I can't type any text. I can paste into the filed, but typing a key doens't seem to register.  I can go back to the main KO window and the keyboard works there. Strange. GPE-Calendar, and other applicaitons don't seem to suffer the same problems so maybe the issue is with the microkde libs.
Ideas, anyone?

[grog]

hmmm... from playing around with it a bit more there seems to be a problem with KOrganizer. The first time I create a calendar entry or ToDo it works fine, but everytime after that (untill I restart the xdeep server) I can't type any text. I can paste into the filed, but typing a key doens't seem to register.  I can go back to the main KO window and the keyboard works there. Strange. GPE-Calendar, and other applicaitons don't seem to suffer the same problems so maybe the issue is with the microkde libs.
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All I can confirm is that I haven't experienced any problems with gpe-calendar, gpe-contacts, sylpheed, dillo or gpe-gallery (the apps I've actually tried so far). Unfortunately we don't have the pi-sync apps available in OZ/GPE yet.

[karlto]

hmmm... from playing around with it a bit more there seems to be a problem with KOrganizer. The first time I create a calendar entry or ToDo it works fine, but everytime after that (untill I restart the xdeep server) I can't type any text. I can paste into the filed, but typing a key doens't seem to register.  I can go back to the main KO window and the keyboard works there. Strange. GPE-Calendar, and other applicaitons don't seem to suffer the same problems so maybe the issue is with the microkde libs.
Ideas, anyone?
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Are you using the ssh -Y option? I found that a lot of things didn't work until I enabled that. The gpe apps were about the only things that did work to start with, so I think maybe they're a little more forgiving...

[Antikx]

Thanks for the tip, but I'm using putty to do ssh in Windows. I've enabled X11 forwarding in PuTTY, so I think I've done what you're suggesting. The mystery continues.

[Antikx]

Zaurus:
-set a password for root

- Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
X11Forwarding: yes

on the pc running X:
- ssh -X root@zaurusip

then launch xterm dillo or whatever
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Just started trying out OZ/GPE.
There's no /etc/ssh/sshd_config in OZ/GPE.
Any ideas?

[pgas]

Just started trying out OZ/GPE.
There's no /etc/ssh/sshd_config in OZ/GPE.
Any ideas?

Oz uses dropbear and not openssh (pdaxrom will also come with dropbear with the next release)
I think ssh -X is suppose to work out of the box.

(search for dropbear in the OZ forums)

[grog]

Just started trying out OZ/GPE.There's no /etc/ssh/sshd_config in OZ/GPE.
Any ideas?

Oz uses dropbear and not openssh (pdaxrom will also come with dropbear with the next release)
I think ssh -X is suppose to work out of the box.

(search for dropbear in the OZ forums)
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Or you could install openssh if you'd prefer (it's in the feeds).

[Lumune]

Zaurus:
-set a password for root

- Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
X11Forwarding: yes

on the pc running X:
- ssh -X root@zaurusip

then launch xterm dillo or whatever
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I have followed ur instructions, I could ssh into Z, but when I tried to run dillo I got the following error:

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# dillo&
[1] 488
#
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

[1]+  Exit 1                  dillo
#
I am running this on X11 on my mac
any ideas what cause this?

thx~

[grog]

Zaurus:
-set a password for root

- Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
X11Forwarding: yes

on the pc running X:
- ssh -X root@zaurusip

then launch xterm dillo or whatever
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I have followed ur instructions, I could ssh into Z, but when I tried to run dillo I got the following error:

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# dillo&
[1] 488
#
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

[1]+  Exit 1                  dillo
#
I am running this on X11 on my mac
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It's the same thing I noticed. You have to set your DISPLAY variable to point to your pc, as in 'export DISPLAY=192.168.129.1:0' (if that's your pc's ip) before running the command.

I wrote myself a script to set it when I needed it. Put it in your path & just use it to run your program 'xpc dillo'. HTH

NB: this works with openssh installed. I'm not sure if it works with dropbear (as is default in the OZ images, don't know about what you use in pdaxrom).

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#!/bin/sh
# xpc
# Runs the given command on the pc's X display

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Usage: ${0##*/} command [args]"
    exit 1
fi

CMD=$@

if [ -n "$SSH_CONNECTION" ]; then
    set -- $SSH_CONNECTION
else
    echo cannot determine host connection >&2
    exit 1
fi

export DISPLAY=${1}:0

($CMD 2>&1 | grep -Ev "^$|WARNING") &

exit 0

[Antikx]

I think ssh -X is suppose to work out of the box.

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You are correct. It does work out of the box in OZ.
Thanks.

[adf]

anyone have xdm running on beta1?  I'm having no luck, just err 97