On 05/06/2014 07:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> Thanks for the information.  At my institution, we were told by the
> university network security group that after ssh -X, one still needed to
> "activate" X for the session by xinit or the like for security reasons.
> Evidently, the persons were thinking of some other environment (MS
> Windows perhaps?).  Indeed, xeyes and firefox both work fine from the
> remote host to the local client workstation.

You are welcome.

> A question:  as a regular X window manager desktop from the remote
> machine is not displayed (that is, the pull down menu "Applications"
> under Gnome or the equivalent from KDE), is there any mechanism to get
> such a menu, etc., displayed?  What is the default GUI file manager
> (that allows an end user to "point and click" on an executable file to
> execute the application) that can be invoked from a remote terminal?

Hi Yasha,

I tried that with Xfce.  I had blocks all over everywhere.
What a mess!  Needless to say ...

As an alternative, when I want a whole desktop, I have used
XRDP on the remote machine and rdesktop on the local machine
to contact it.  Works really stick.

I have written myself references for both.  I will post them
if you need them.

-T


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