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Newer versions of Mozilla (Iceweasel / Icedove) not working when X forwarding is used
On one of my machines (debian squeeze), I have just upgraded the standard version of Iceweasel provided with debian squeeze stable (3.5.16). I am now using the version available with the backports ...
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How can I force LXDE to have a transparent background when connecting with X/X11?
Just got my Raspberry Pi in the mail and I've started playing around with it. After getting LXDE up and working working in desktop mode (i.e. monitor and keyboard plugged in) I decided I wanted to ...
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How to forward a window (display) to another computer on the network
I'm setting up a media server for my movies. The server is networked and so are a couple laptops/desktops. The server is running the latest Ubuntu (desktop edition, not server).
This is the scenario ...
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Is there a clipboard on non-GUI Ubuntu / Linux systems? Can I synchronize it with my local (OS X) clipboard?
I spend a lot of time on Mac OS X as a desktop system, and on the Mac there are two nice little utilities for the command line, pbcopy and pbpaste which can accept stdin and write to stdout. Is there ...
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SSH not terminated after exit when there is X Forward program
After running X programs over SSH, SSH doesn't terminate after shell exit (have to use e.g. CtrlC to kill it).
My guess is although the X program already exit, there is still some "connection" left ...
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Forwarding X11 over SSH if the server configuration doesn't allow it
Consider a situation where I'm logging in over SSH from machine A to machine B, I have an X session on machine A, and I want to run an X program on B.
ssh -X B makes this work transparently. But what ...
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How to forward X over SSH from Ubuntu machine?
I have a machine running Ubuntu which I SSH to from my Fedora 14 machine. I want to forward X from the Ubuntu machine back to Fedora so I can run graphical programs remotely. Both machines are on a ...
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Linux -> linux remote X login/desktop
What are the (best) solutions for remote desktop in linux? Ideally I'd like to be able to be able to log in to a remote X (KDE) session without even logging into my local machine. Maybe if I could ...
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XForwarding not loading correct $PATH
I tried to XForward netbeans to my laptop, using the following code:
# This does not work
$ ssh user@10.0.0.5 -Y netbeans
which: no javac in (/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin)
which: no java in ...
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Why are the fonts all screwy for remote X11 apps on one Mac client?
I have two Mac OS X clients, both running XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33). When I SSH into a remote linux system enabling X11 forwarding and launch gnome-terminal, on one Mac the terminal ...
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XForwarding Applications from OSX
Using XForwarding, you can access GUI applications over ssh between two Xorg-powered machines (and sometimes even from a windows machine).
Is there a way to access OSX applications (like Finder) from ...
