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odp

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Registered: 2012-04-26

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[SOLVED] can you start X server from ssh (not X forwarding)

Hi folks,

Lets say my computer at home just rebooted.
I can boot it up again with WOL.
Login to it over SSH from a remote site.
I have proccesses I need to start, but they require X-server to run.

Is it possible to start X over SSH?

This is not a question regarding X forwarding over ssh.
This is not a question on Remote Desktop.

Thanks

Last edited by odp (2014-02-07 09:35:53)

scar

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Re: [SOLVED] can you start X server from ssh (not X forwarding)

The answer is: YES.
by the way, if you launch X with the startx command, it will launch "plain X", unless you have specified something in your users .xinitrc file.

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odp

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Re: [SOLVED] can you start X server from ssh (not X forwarding)

but the X session will inevitably terminate when the ssh session is killed right?

mrunion

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Re: [SOLVED] can you start X server from ssh (not X forwarding)

Using screen may help? I'm definitely not sure if this is the way to go, though.

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R00KIE

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Re: [SOLVED] can you start X server from ssh (not X forwarding)

You probably want something along the lines of a vnc server

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ibexmonj

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Re: [SOLVED] can you start X server from ssh (not X forwarding)

Heres one of the example of what i do. I am not a pro just a suggestion

I have arch arm on my rasp pi. best i setup a display manager (slim) I use to ssh remotely, start vnc server locally and then startx.
you can run vnc with '&' and you can then end your ssh session and your vnc server will still be available after you disconnect ur session.

WonderWoofy

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Re: [SOLVED] can you start X server from ssh (not X forwarding)

I just want to note that I have played a bit with plain old vnc.  But I was quite impressed with the performance and overall responsiveness of x2go.  It runs over SSH and works amazingly well.  I guess it is ultimately an open version of NoMachine.

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] can you start X server from ssh (not X forwarding)

but the X session will inevitably terminate when the ssh session is killed right?

Why?  I haven't done this specifically with a ssh session, but why would ending the ssh session kill x?

If you run just run xinit from your ssh session then yes, but setsid and/or nohup should allow you to run xinit and then do other things in your ssh session or just logout.

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odp

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Re: [SOLVED] can you start X server from ssh (not X forwarding)

I wonder why VNC got introduced into this post?

Trillby, I guess because I did not use startx &

Thanks!