Enable remote desktop remotely from ssh ?

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Sun Sep 18 13:42:56 UTC 2005


On 9/18/05, Alex Paquet-Bouchard <apbmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> vino-preferences won't work through ssh since it's an X application
> (vino-preferences:21702): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> 
> I need to enable it with a console program

This is a ubuntu-users question, please followup there.

The -X option of ssh enables X11 forwarding. That way, you can execute
X11 applications remotely, and make them display locally.

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regards,
    Reinhard




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