Re: Launch X11 upon remote connect?
Re: Launch X11 upon remote connect?
- Subject: Re: Launch X11 upon remote connect?
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:45:44 -0700
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, Ambrose Li wrote:
>2008/6/10 Tom Scogland <email@hidden>:
>> So, I'm wondering, why are you guys using remote X? Does it offer
>> anything that you don't get from say, Xvnc, NX, ssh tunneling, etc?
>> I've always used the others because remote X was harder to set up (for
>> me anyway) and when it was finally working it felt slower, but if
>> there are 3 people here doing it there must be something to it...
>
>For the "slower" part I suppose you are talking about WAN (or cable/DSL)
>connections? As far as I can see we are all talking about private LAN's.
>In such an environment there is absolutely no way VNC, ssh, or (I assume)
>NX can be faster than plain remote X.
Are you talking about running a window manager on the remote
system or x-clients? One does not need to ``run X`` on the
remote machine to run x-clients via ssh (IHMO, the only sane way
to run them as one doen't have to deal with DISPLAY, xhosts, or
the security issues of running pure X11 on a network).
The vast majority of my day is spent running ssh connections to
remote systems using xterms (e.g. updating clamav on 35 systems
today). If the system is on our LAN, I will generally do it
with: ``ssh -Y -f system path_to/xterm'' running the xterm (or
other x-clients) on the remote system. Connections to slower
systems use ``xterm -e ssh -Y system &'', running the xterm
locally. None of these require ``runnin X11'' on the remote.
I will often run vncserver on the remote system if I have to run
a fairly slow x-client such as Firefox or vmware console. For a
VNC session I run ``xterm -e ssh -L5901:localhost:5901 system &''
to create a secure tunnel. Then on the remote system I run
``vncserver -geometry 1024x760''. On the local box, I can now
run ``vncviewer localhost:1'' to make the connection and run any
x-clients necessary. This seems significantly faster than
runnint the x-client remotely as VNC minimizes the network
traffic.
I am much more likely to be running remote x-clients from my OS X
desktop with the remote being a Linux or FreeBSD box than to be
running x-clients on OS X.
Bill
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