[mythtv-users] Re:OT: Launch Mythfrontend remotely via ssh

[Bill Bradley]

On Friday 13 February 2004 10:04 am, John DeLuca wrote:
Ok....

try this...

ssh from laptop to desktop....

export DISPLAY=locahost:0.0
 then run something like "xterm" to test.
It should popup an xterm on your backend. This worked fine for me.. I am at 
work so i dont have myth to test it with.

However....you may be better off setting up your desktop to autologin a user 
with gdm/kdm and start mythfrontend as part of the Session file.  I use gdm 
and BlackBox for my myth backend.  Whenever my frontend hangs (usually only 
if I am messing around with something :) ) I can ssh in ...killall 
mythfrontend... then X restarts and reloads mythfrontend.

Check the list as a lot of folks are doing this...or I can send you my 
BlackBox gdm session script.....


> Let me clarify.....I don't want to run the myth display on my
> laptop....only want to run it on the display attached to my desktop. But
> since I don't want to have a keyboard attached to it, i'd like to be able
> to launch x programs from my laptop via ssh.  The reason is because from
> time to time the ivtv driver crashes (it's still beta I think and hence
> occasionally acts up).  I can kill, and relaunch the driver remotely, but
> then I usually need to restart mythfrontend.
>
> I tried the following command but it returned an error when I try to launch
> mythfrontend.(mythfrontend: cannot connect to X server
> mythtv.johnfdeluca.com:0.0)
>
> export DISPLAY=mythtv.johnfdeluca.com:0.0
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ok...if you use ssh with X11 forwarding (some distro's have x11 forwarding
> in ssh on by default)..the frontend should redirect to wherever you are
> sshing from. I am not sure if this is what you are asking for.  Why not
> just start the frontend on the desktop display with mythfrontend?  or you
> could use vnc but neither vnc or x11 is going to be able to be usuable for
> vieiwing.
>
> also if you are having ivtv probs, running the frontend probably wont fix
> your problems.  you need to look at your backend log or /var/log/messages
> for ivtv errors and post those to the list or maybe just some more info so
> we can help.