Re: Remote login, graphically?

On 6/16/06, Andreas Schildbach <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello everyone,

I have installed Ubuntu on my mother's machine. Now, I'd like to solve
some of her technical problem remotely. I can already login via SSH and
fix things with a text editor.

Now, I'd like to start several X programs on her machine, but have the
user interface on my machine. I have tunneled X through SSH with:

ssh -X ...

I can start "xeyes", and it appears on my monitor. However, when I start
"firefox", I get the following error after some time waiting:

$ firefox
The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 1057 error_code 3 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
function.)

Also, I'd like to start "from scratch" and login to her machine via GDM,
in a way so I have the complete gnome environment. Is this possible?

And lastly, is this also possible in a way that she can see what I am
doing, or I can see what she is doing?

Regards,

Andreas

I had heard about FreeNX but could never get the server running on the
64-bit Breezy, so when Dapper was released that was one of the reasons
I switched to the 386 version. I am not disappointed, FreeNX is
*incredible* for running an X session remotely.

As far as desktop "sharing," I don't have any experience with that but
I *think* vmware will allow for something like that.

Todd

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