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| Author: | graysky [ Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | start a program from a shell and have it load into X on :0 |
Basically, I'd like to know how to start a program from a shell and have it load up in an active X session. Example. KM box is running X on display :0 as per defaults. I want to ssh into the box from another PC and run a GUI program like mplayer and have it appear in the :0 display. Is this possible and if so, how? Thanks! |
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| Author: | mikavir [ Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:19 am ] |
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Try using the -X -option with ssh. Here at work I have a Fedora 9: Quote: OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
ssh -X mythtv@mythboxip xeyes and even mythfrontend work, even though fe is _really_ slow... |
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| Author: | alien [ Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:34 am ] |
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ssh tunneling (ssh -X) will allow a problem run on a remote machine to display on the machine you used to log into it (very useful). If you want to have the program display on :0 (i.e. your TV), execute the following after logging in: Code: export DISPLAY=:0 Any further commands (ex. xterm) will display on the TV.
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| Author: | graysky [ Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:46 pm ] |
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Thanks for the suggestions. The way to do it: 1) On the LOCAL machine (i.e. the one on which you want the program running), open a shell and type 'xhost localhost' 2) Connect to the machine via ssh and enter the following into the shell 'export DISPLAY=:0.0' Now anything you run from that ssh shell appears on X on the machine. Very cool and useful. |
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