Remote restart of gui after logout

John farmingdalejohn at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 02:11:33 UTC 2009


dean wrote:
> John wrote:
>   
>> Hi All.  I remote to my Ubuntu box with vnc.  Sometimes I have to log 
>> out and then log back in, but I don't need to restart.  The problem is 
>> that when I log out, the remote services that allow me to vnc in are no 
>> longer running when I am logged out.  I can still SSH in.  So my 
>> question is, how do I either restart gui and remote services from the 
>> SSH command line, or how do I set it up so that remote services are 
>> still running while I am logged out?
>>
>> So far from the SSH command line I tried: startx, xinit, initlevel 5
>>
>> - J
>>
>>   
>>     
> You could use an SSH tunnel to view your pc, an example would be to use
>
> SSH -X blah at blah.com
>
> So if you then type nautilus or whatever in your ssh session, it will 
> actually remote that window to your desktop.
>
>
>   
I'm looking in Putty for how to do that but I haven't found it yet, is 
gui possible with Putty?




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