Re: Launch X11 upon remote connect?
Re: Launch X11 upon remote connect?
- Subject: Re: Launch X11 upon remote connect?
- From: Jay Levitt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:24:12 -0400
Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
I would say that yes it is possible, and no I don't want to support it.
The old-style X over TCP/IP is not very secure. Use ssh with X11
forwarding, and your X11 will startup for you on demand.
A plea for reconsideration:
Is my use case - "remote" X on a secure-enough LAN - unusual? As I
mentioned to Brandon Allbery a few days ago, if someone breaks into my
apartment, I have more to worry about than packet-sniffing. I'd imagine
that there are many office LANs with headless servers in similar situations, no?
I've tried ssh tunneling, but it's very bursty, even for applications that I
wouldn't expect to be too demanding; I've seen quarter-second pauses in
echoing back my keystrokes, and the same pauses with
I-know-it's-not-a-benchmark glxgears. Maybe I've become spoiled by gigabit
LANs?
Jay
--Jeremy
On Jun 10, 2008, at 05:32, Jay Levitt wrote:
Sometimes, I accidentally quit X11 instead of the individual
application. X11 will automatically launch if a local X client needs
it, but the same isn't true of a remote X client.
Is there a way for launchd or something else to launch X11 when a
remote connection is received, xinetd-style?
OS X 10.5.3
Xquartz 2.2.1 (xorg-server-1.3.0-apple20)
Jay Levitt
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