Ah, I see I was late to reply. Yes, this is the correct answer. If you're sshing into a system on your LAN, I find it to be quite speedy (I do this with Eclipse every day, and it runs with the same performance as it does on my own system) but if you're trying to do this over the Internet well, like Mark said, YMMV. (:
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Mark Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > Dick, > > Google "forwarding X over ssh". > > Basically, you have to enable X11Forwarding on the server in the .ssh file, > then just 'ssh -X' from the client. > > May be slow...YMMV. > > Mark > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > What's the word I need to search on for a tool to connect to a remote > > Ubuntu machine and have access to the GUI? > > > > I already SSH into the machine for one task I need to do. But sometimes > > I need to run a program on it that requires a GUI. I recall that there > > are such tools, but don't recall the names. > > > > The remote box runs MythTV. I'm no longer using it to drive a TV, but > > just for viewing the schedule. I can always get out a monitor and hook > > it up, but for the few times I need to run the front end program, it > > would be easier to do it from another machine. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Dick Steffens > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
