I am doing some remote work on a Raspberry Pi over SSH with X11 enabled. What is the command to launch the Task Manager GUI from the terminal?
Looks like it's command is lxtask:
user#raspbian:~$ lxtask
If you want to send the window to the PC where you opened the SSH from, you need to add -X to your SSH connection command.
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I found a strange thing when using ssh -X to connect to two servers.
Ubuntu16.04 is installed on one server, while Ubuntu 18.04 is installed on the other. I upload a simple shell script as following to both servers:
#!/bin/bash
tab=" --tab"
options=()
cmds[1]="echo Banana"
cmds[2]="echo Cat"
for i in 1 2; do
options+=($tab -e "bash -c '${cmds[i]} ; bash'" )
done
gnome-terminal "${options[#]}"
exit 0
You know this script will open a new terminal window on server with two tabs. One tab will print "Banana", and the other tab will print "Cat".
Then I using ssh -X to remotely login into the first server (Ubuntu 16.04) and execute this script on server, I got a new terminal opened with two tabs on my pc. That is I saw the remote terminal GUI of server on my own computer. However, if I repeated these steps on the second server(Ubuntu18.04), I will got nothing to show on my computer.
The I execute commandgedit on the ssh login terminal when using ssh -X to login into both servers, I could see the GUI on my computer for both the cases.
I guess Ubuntu 18.04 cannot transport terminal's GUI through ssh -X to my pc. I was very confused about this. Could you please to explain the reason? And BTW, how can I see terminal's GUI of server in this case? Thanks a lot!
ssh -X doesn't transport a terminal. It tunnels a X11 connection.
X11 in its core is a network based display protocol. The programs (X clients) connect to a X server (a program running on your local machine) and instruct it to create windows and draw stuff to it. There is no graphical rendition of any kind anywhere else than the X server!
ssh -X does not operate like Windows Remote Desktop, where there is an actual graphics environment running on the remote machine. Hence if you create two separate ssh -X connections (maybe even from different machines), these connections are completely independent from each other. Hence you cannot use ssh -X to connect with a preexisting X session!
What you want is either Xvnc or Xpra, where the graphics environment is actually run on the remote machine, and only the output is transferred to your local machine.
i am connected with cygwin to a ssh server
there i want to open a application via x11-forwarding
i use xming as x11 server on my windows machine
now in putty i had the possibility to automatically forward x11 and so i dont need to export my DISPLAY, thats not a problem i can set it every time i connect to the server.
but if i export my DISPLAY, it wont start the application it always says:
Error: Can't open display: xxx.xx.xx.xx
i really liked the way putty worked and want to user cygwin.
i tried Cygwin/X but there always opens another terminal which i dont really like. i like to open my application from my existing standart cygwin terminal where i also connect to the server
is there any way doing this?!
i startet the xserver with the following command and after that i could start the programms automatically on my remote ssh server and it was forwarded automatically to my xserver
startxwin -- -listen tcp &
after this i even didnt have to set the DISPLAY
I have an xterm window open on a computer. I want to access this xterm window remotely using ssh. Is it possible? By access I mean, I should be able to run commands on that open shell.
I'm not sure if it is possible to access an xterm window that's already been opened, while being over ssh. However, you can certainly open an ssh connection with X11 forwarding capabilities. Once X11 is forwarded, you can just run the program in ssh's command line, and it'll open in your forwarded X11 screen.
Here's a good article that explains in detail what you need to accomplish this: http://www.math.umn.edu/systems_guide/putty_xwin32.html
For example, after completing the details in the above article, and assuming you have Gnome Desktop installed, you could run gnome-terminal over ssh and have a Unix terminal open and forwarded over the ssh connection. Pretty much any application that has a GUI is runnable this way.
here is my problem: i would like to run a Mathematica script through ssh on a remote machine so that i can close the terminal on my computer and keep it running on the remote one.
My problem arises because the script acts in interacting mode, and so when i close the terminal the process is shut down too.
Thanks.
Use tmux or GNU screen.
Workflow:
ssh into remote machine
start tmux/screen, e.g. tmux or screen
start Mathematica script inside tmux/screen session
detach tmux/screen session, e.g. Ctrl+B d (tmux) or Ctrl+A d (screen)
close ssh connection
Then later:
ssh into remote machine
reattach to tmux/screen session, e.g. tmux attach or screen -d -R
view completed Mathematica script output
Several cases:
If you don't need to interact with it or need to visualize the notebook during evaluation
Log in to the machine with ssh
Then, to run a kernel in the background and detach it from the current session, use nohup tool (the standard output of the command will be dumped to myNotebook.out):
nohup math < myNotebook.nb > myNotebook.out &
At this point, the ssh session can be closed without killing Mathematica
Optionally you can monitor mathcommand output with the tail command (use CTRL-C to exit the tail monitoring)
tail -f myNotebook.out
If you need to see what's going on, visualize graphs during calculation or to be able to interact graphically, use remote desktop (vnc) and tunnel your communication with remote machine. Details depends a bit on the Linux distribution (vnc clients & servers may differ). You can even from Windows or Mac connect with remote desktop to your linux box and manipulate it. I suggest you to search the web for remote desktop ssh tunnel + your distro for tutorials.
I'm currently implementing some machine learning algorithm by octave and run in the remote server. Once I type some drawing commands such like hist() it shows that
warning: X11 DISPLAY environment variable not set
Is it possible that I set the environment as my local X11 service. How to do it? Thanks.
Connect the remote server by ssh and add the option -X
ssh -X remote_server
Then ssh will enable X11 forwarding.