On 07/05/14 04:33, 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.
> 
> 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?

Running this over ssh will most likely not work well at all.  If you
want a remote desktop experience, look into nomachine or freenx:

<https://www.nomachine.com/>
<http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX>

Another alternative is to start Xvnc and tunnel the VNC port Xvnc
establishes from your remote server via SSH.  Then use a local VNC
client to connect to the same port.  This may work, but may also be
worse than nomachine.

Using anything else, will most likely just cause grief and frustration.
 The X11 protocol isn't easily tunnelled, and requires quite some stable
bandwidth to work decent.


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kind regards,

David Sommerseth