X11 Forward the console session through SSH

Sm1 · Last edited by Sm1 on Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:55 am; edited 1 time in total

I'm looking to find a way other than VNC to forward the display 0.0 (The display shown when logged in interactively) when SSHing into my newly compiled machine.

I am at a bit of a level of ambiguity whether this is possible.

I have achieved running cygwin/putty combination and getting an SSH session into the gentoo box and forwarding to a different display, but if that connection is lost then the whole session is lost. I figure if i can share the console display, if i get disconnected, i can just reconnect to that display and all will be as previously.

meowsqueak · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 12:37 am Post subject:

Console display? The 'console' the text-only (or sometimes framebuffered) screen you see when Linux boots up. Do you mean the first screen on the first X server - :0.0?

line72 · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 212

install the program called screen, it will let you do what you want

meowsqueak · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 2:22 am Post subject:

Sm1 · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 2:45 am Post subject:

Yea what i was looking to do was forward the display 0:0 not the actual console.

i am emerging screen as i type right now, ill see how that goes

meowsqueak · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:02 am Post subject:

Ok, screen will not help with X displays. If you want to remotely access the entire X 'screen' you need to use something like VNC. If you want a remote app to draw it's GUI on your X server, you can use ssh -X. Remember, the application that displays the graphics is the 'X server' and the application that produces the output is the X client (e.g. xterm).

Sm1 · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:26 am Post subject:

hmmm this is turning into more trouble than i was hoping. And screen doesnt seem to be very much of help

meowsqueak · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:40 am Post subject:

XSession can 'remember' what you had open and reopen apps for you when you restart X. It doesn't remember application state however, so you won't get back to where you were.

There's something like screen for X called xnest but I don't think it works very well.

Sm1 · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 4:19 am Post subject:

I have hunted quite a bit across google and it looks as though all signs point towards the only way this would work is through VNC unfortunately.

And now that i seem to understand how this whole X server and client thing works, it wouldnt make sense for an X client such as KDE be connected to two X servers (one on the local machine and one on the remote machine