Subj : "not smart" linux questio
To   : Warp 4
From : anthk
Date : Wed Oct 07 2020 11:01 am

  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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