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Is it possible to access x11 clipboard in a untrusted X11 client?
How can I access x11 clipboard in a remote untrusted client(ssh x11 forwarding)? All I need is the x11 clipboard and I don't want to enable trusted x11 forwarding(which would give the remote client ...
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Local display using Xming-Putty
I've been struggling with Xming and putty for a while and I can't make it work; I enabled X11 forwarding in putty, updated xauth list on the client side with the xauth list of the server side.
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Launch startxwin in current terminal
I'm using Cygwin and am using Console2 as replacement to the default Cygwin terminal. I need to use X11 forwarding, and every time I run startxwin it launches it in a new terminal. I would instead ...
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How do you make X11 display over ssh connections faster?
I have installed netbeans on a remote Solaris machine. When I try to access it over a VPN, the UI is rendered really slowly. I use ssh command with -X option on my local system to connect to the ...
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Xming with windows 8 to a unix computer
Ok. So I am just getting started with this whole xming thing but I encountered an error which I can't really find a suitable solution for on the many forums that discuss xming. I installed xming, ...
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RemoteApp server alternative for Linux [closed]
I want to install Cadsoft Eagle on a Linux server, and then use that installation from my other boxes and by that keeping my settings and drawings between environments. A simple remote application ...
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keeping remote X11 applications during remote client (i.e. Xserver) computer sleeps/hibernate/suspend
i'm using using slow but portable computers (asus eeepc, vivobook, etc) and do all my development on a remote server.
most of the time i just ssh to the server, start a screen session, if anything ...
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Setting up X11 forwarding via plink in Tramp
I've been trying to use TRAMP to remotely access some servers at work. I'm trying to connect to a remote server via Emacs to edit R files and run an R session remotely.
My set-up is as follows:
My ...
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How could I run Sublime Text 2 without X server?
I'm using Sublime Text 2 and it's an awesome editor.
Sometimes I'm on a slow connection editing remote files and X11 over SSH is too damn slow to be of any use.
I could only run Sublime on the remote ...
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Getting Ubuntu host's GUI on local machine when using X Window
I am tunneling X Window over ssh on my local OSX machine using XQuartz.
Now the GUI of course looks different than what I would get when I start programs on ubuntu locally.
Is there a way to make my ...
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Running Eclipse remotely via ssh and X11 on OSX gives Null Pointer Exception
I have an ubuntu system that I connect to from my Mac (10.8.2) using ssh with -X option.
XQuartz starts correctly and when I run "eclipse" from terminal it starts, the splashscreen comes up and the ...
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X11 not sending windows to remote computer matlab
I am trying to set up my home desktop, running OS X Mountain Lion, to basically do a bunch of grunt work for me remotely. I have set up ssh, and am able to remotely control the computer fine, but the ...
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X11 display over ssh with monitor connected to remote machine
I have the following setup: Machine A (a.corp, 192.168.100.130, local machine) and Machine B (b.corp, remote machine) and a monitor is connected to each of these machines. When I ssh from a.corp to ...
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How can I forward an application with X11 in grayscale [closed]
I am trying to run a graphical application at home and display it on a it on a laptop which is located about six routing hops away. The problem is that the connection is so slow (or rather there is so ...
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X11 Forwarding for user without home directory
I have a privileged user without home folder with ssh access. I try to do X forwarding but I get the message /usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /home/user/.Xauthority
If I don't have ...
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Xming and Cygwin/X
For the sole purpose of remotely accessing X applications on Linux from a Windows machine:
What are the differences between Xming and Cygwin/X? (e.g. in terms of speed/features). Do they satisfy the ...
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X11 forwarding stops working after a while
I use Cygwin to connect a linux box (ubuntu server 12.04) via SSH, and I use X11 forwarding. Every time I ssh, I can use X forwarding for a while then it stops working (eg. gvim says Display cannot ...
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OS X 10.7 with XQuartz can't X11Forward to remote Ubuntu 10.04
The problem:
X11 forwarding doesn't seem to work properly.
The setup:
I'm using ssh to connect from my Mac to an Ubuntu box, trying to open xterm. The Mac is OS X 10.7 running XQuartz 2.7.2 ...
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ssh X11 forwarding after forgetting -X
Is there a way to tell an already-running ssh session to forward X11 connections, if you've forgotten to supply -X on the command line? If so, how?
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PuTTY + Xming + GNU screen: can it be done?
When I connect to a remote host (running darwin) with PuTTY, and having Xming running alongside, I can run, e.g., xlogo on the remote host, and I see the appropriate xlogo display clientside.
But ...
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Limit Xquartz to One Monitor
I'm on OSX 10.7.4 in a multi monitor setup. I use X11Forwarding via SSH to work remotely. Both stock X11 and Xquartz X11 have no (obvious) setting to limit themselves to one monitor.
Is there a way I ...
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Xming clipboard only works one way
I recently started using Xming to display-back X11 applications from a Linux VM to my Win XP desktop. It's great -- much more useful than the solution I had before, which used VNC -- but the ...
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X11 Forwarding shows multiple desktops, not just a single one as I expected
X11 Forwarding shows multiple desktops, not just a single one as I expected.
It appears almost as though 2 tunnels are open and displaying. One is likely the initial Linux desktop (gnome-session) ...
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Fastest light-weight image viewer over forwarded x11 session (linux)
I have a slow network connection over which I'm forwarding x11 over ssh.
I want to view images on the remote host (Ubuntu) quickly and efficiently.
I'm looking for an image viewer that will take ...
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Viewing an already running application through ssh?
So I have Ktorrent running all the time on my remote host, and I have to change some of the settings on it every once and a while that can't be changed through the web ui. So I was wondering if there ...
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gnu screen losing DISPLAY connection
I ssh tunnel into a remote desktop running Ubuntu via a terminal - and use gnu screen
to do my work there. I have enabled X11 forwarding in my ssh config for the use
of X11 applications launched from ...
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Is it possible to run mac osx apps on a X11 server?
I can successfully open a ssh -X connection from host.home to host.work (both Mac OS X).
X11 is running on host.home. When I start xterm or xeyes on host.work I see it on host.home, but if I start ...
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why does ssh X forwarding timeout after a while?
So I have a mac at work which I like to ssh into my linux box with something like this:
$ ssh -Xt user@mylinux
I can login and start any X11 apps on my linux box no problem. But after 15 minutes ...
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Forwarding X through 2 servers (4 boxes involved)
I'm trying to run a web browser on my desktop machine at work but display on my local laptop.
To connect via ssh, I need to go through 2 servers.
A: Laptop wanting to display browser that runs on ...
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Fastest browser to run over a forwarded X11 session
So far I have tried Firefox (latest and greatest) and Chrome (also latest and greatest), and while Chrome runs faster than Firefox over X11 from my CentOS server to my Windows 7 workstation, it's ...
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remote access to linux server from windows
I have a very basic beginner question that I didn't see an answer to. I am accessing a Linux server remotely from a Windows box, using SSH (Putty) and a database administration program.
I would ...
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How can I export DISPLAY from a Linux terminal to a Windows PC?
Exporting display from a Linux terminal to a Linux desktop is easy; you do the following:
On 192.168.90.121 (localPC):
xhost + 192.168.10.164
On 192.168.10.164 (remotePC):
export ...
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enable PuTTY users to have X11 forwarding (Redhat 5 server)
I want to enable graphical forwarding for my server. I am connecting via PuTTY and click the X11 forwarding, which works with other servers. None of the other topics on this site have helped me so ...
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Start VNC session without the full GUI desktop? (seamless window)
I would like to start a vncserver on *NIX machine and then on the client side (windows XP) I would like to be able to have just the terminal from the server machine (like gnome-terminal) without ...
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X11 forwarding with an already running window?
I'm trying to forward the X session to my Windows laptop (using Xming and putty), and I have no problem opening new programs such as gedit and having them forward, but how would I forward something ...
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sshfs with x forwarding?
I've been using sshfs to mount directories from servers on my laptop.
I also have the following in my ~/.ssh/config:
ControlMaster auto
I set this because it keeps a single ssh connection alive ...
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ssh with x11 forwarding: does not work from outside network
I have a laptop and a server. On the same lan network, I can ssh with X11 forwarding to the server via:
ssh -Y -C username@internal.ip
When I execute anything that opens an x11 window, things work. ...
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“Seamless” multi user session in linux/X11
The goal
I would love to have a multi user system (based on linux) using only one X11 session with multiple screens and pairs of mouse and keyboard. So two (or more) people can work with the same ...
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SSH with X11 forwarding to host where I don't have a home-dir
I am trying to ssh with X11 forwarding into a host where I don't have a home directory. Because of that, xauth fails and X11 doesn't seem to work. I tried to specify a home-directory in advance but I ...
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Showing X-Forwarded window on current machine for mac
If I ssh into a server using ssh -X unixserver.com, I can run a command which opens a graphical application and the window will show on my current computer.
I want the same to happen when I ssh into ...
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failed to enable x11 forwarding
I am trying to enable X11 forwarding on my server which is running on FreeBSD 7.1.
I have a putty installed in my windows in which i have enabled X11 forwarding by
checking on Enable X11 ...
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How to resume disconnected SSH X11-forwarded applications?
I am happily using SSH's X11-forwarding to run some applications and then the connection was disconnected.
Running ps ax from a new SSH connection shows that the applications are still running. How ...
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X11 forwarding from Amazon EC2 AMI
local$> echo $DISPLAY
:0.0
local$> ssh -X -i PEMFILE ec2-user@AMAZONEC2_AMI
[ec2-user@REMOTE_AMI ~]$ echo $DISPLAY
[ec2-user@REMOTE_AMI ~]$ sudo grep X11 /etc/ssh/sshd_config ...
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XForwarding suddenly stops working
I use Cygwin/X to ssh into a VirtualBox hosted Ubuntu Server which has had the various X bits and pieces installed:
ssh -X user@IPADDRESS
Once in, I can run gnome-terminal and the terminal pops up. ...
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X11 forwarding over chained ssh connections
Imagine I have a box (A) and ssh access to it and want to run a programm and forward its x11 output to xMing. That works just fine with putty.
Now things get more complicated. There is another box ...
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Open putty window - is x11 forwarding enabled?
If I have a putty window already open, is there a way to tell if x11 forwarding is enabled?
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Remotely connecting to Ubuntu server from a Macbook: can't run PyMol
My lab runs a Ubuntu cluster, and in general I interact with it on my personal Macbook using SSH. Recently I've been going beyond the command line and have been experimenting with getting graphical ...
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OpenGL program not work with X forwarding
I have an OpenGL program in a Linux server. I want to run the program remotely with X forwarding, but it fails, whereas programs such as xclock and xeyes work fine. (I confirmed that the program works ...
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Tunnelling X11 through an SSH gateway with no X11 install [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Skip over intermediate server via SSH
At my university we have an SSH gateway for remote access to our departmental Linux network. The gateway itself has a very minimal ...
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Connecting to Centos 5 from Windows/Putty/X11 Forwarding
I have a centos server with barebones X11 installed. I am trying to connect to this server from my Windows box with Putty and Xming.
I have set X11Forwarding to yes in the sshd_config file. I have ...
