[mythtv-users] VNC

Robin Hill myth at robinhill.me.uk
Fri Jan 5 01:47:03 UTC 2007


On Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 02:27:12PM +1300, Steve Hodge wrote:

> On 1/5/07, Robin Hill <myth at robinhill.me.uk> wrote:
> >
> >On Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 01:19:47PM +1300, Steve Hodge wrote:
> >
> >> Under Windows? That's what the original poster is using...
> >>
> >No, via ssh on the linux box, which is what the OP was asking.  You set
> >DISPLAY to the VNC session (:0 if you're exporting the main desktop, or
> >:1 if you're running Xvnc as a separate process) then run the
> >mythfrontend command as given above.
> 
> So what's the purpose of ssh? He's just running  mythfrontend in a terminal
> on the linux box. The only networking involved is VNC - which you can tunnel
> over ssh, but is probably overkill on a LAN.
> 
That'd depend on the window manager I guess - if you're running a
stripped down window manager then you can't open a terminal directly
from within the VNC session.  In this case you'd need to ssh in to get a
command line.  Otherwise, yes, you can do it all from within VNC
directly.

Anyway, I was (originally) just correcting the earlier statement that
the mythfrontend command couldn't be run from an ssh session, not saying
that it was necessarily the best way to do it.

Cheers,
        Robin
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