Re: "not smart" linux questio
By: Warp 4 to Android8675 on Tue Oct 06 2020 05:08 pm
> -=> Android8675 wrote to all <=-
>
> An> So I'm running a Ubuntu box, and I killed the graphical bits and just
> ^^^^^^
> First mistake <grins> Ok, I am biased towards RHEL-based distros like
> CentOS and Fedora, but have never had any luck with the modern releases
> of Ubuntu (give me back my 7.xx version of Ubuntu and I will run it all
> day long <smiles>).
>
> An> made it so I can SSH (with key) from my Windows desktop using PuTTY,
> An> but if I want to get the graphical look back is running something like "
Xming X Server" the route I want to use, or can I startup
> An> xwindows on
> An> the Ubuntu system and remote connect? Basically I just want to be able
> An> to run stuff like gtkmonitor instead of umonitor so I can keep an eye
> An> on system status, or run a couple random xwindows bits for fun.
>
> PuTTY and XMink are, in my experience, your best solution. We use it
> where I work so that our developers can SSH into our application server
> and use XMing to run things like Eclipse, Firefox, etc, through the SSH
> tunnel while still having the command line.
>
> ... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader!
On top of that, I'd use Vcxsrv instead of XMing, as Vcxsrv support
hardware accelerated rendering.
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