Remote restart of gui after logout

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

On Mon, September 7, 2009 04:11, John wrote:
> dean wrote:
>> John wrote:
>>
...
>>>
>>> So far from the SSH command line I tried: startx, xinit, initlevel 5
>>>
>> 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?
>

Related to PuTTY is an application called CygWin.  You need to install as
many modules of CygWin, so that you can run am -X session over SSH.  After
correct and adequate installation of CygWin, you just write "ssh
foo at example.com -Y" in a CygWin terminal. This old page might be of help:
http://computingconfidence.com/software/drupal6/115-install-drupal6-on-vhost
http://www.cygwin.com/

Note that if you install everything in CygWin, it will set you back quite
a lot of disk space, so be a bit selective.  Using a Mac or a Linux in the
first place would have been easier  :-)
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