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Old Posted 07-25-2008, 11:08 PM
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I'm still new at this crap, so don't go all tattoomike on me...

I have a (almost) headless box in the closet hooked up to TV. This way I can switch the TV input and see my security cameras. The problem is that whenever I have to restart the box (which I do from time to time via a ssh login from my laptop), I have to get out the keyboard and mouse to relaunch firefox (the security system displays in a browser).

I want to be able to launch GDE, or better yet, launch firefox directly from a remote login prompt. Problem is, X will only launch from a console login. So, how do I launch firefox from a ssh remote login?

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Old Posted 07-25-2008, 11:15 PM in reply to spokeshave's post "'nother linux geek question"
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What distro?
Do you have an xterm app for your PC that you wish to admin from?
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Old Posted 07-25-2008, 11:19 PM in reply to Boxman's post starting "What distro? Do you have an xterm app..."
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What distro?
Do you have an xterm app for your PC that you wish to admin from?
Sorry...FC8.

I do all my admin stuff from the command prompt via ssh. All I want to be able to do is start firefox remotely and have it display on the TV.

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Old Posted 07-25-2008, 11:38 PM in reply to spokeshave's post starting "Sorry...FC8. I do all my admin..."
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Sounds like you want it to autologin a user and launch firefox. Doable but I don't remember how. The other alternative is to use VNC or better yet xvnc as a remote desktop display. You'll be able to login to a graphical UI remotely without needing a KB or mouse attached to your headless box.

http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/xvnc/
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Old Posted 07-28-2008, 04:27 AM in reply to spokeshave's post "'nother linux geek question"
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Did you get this figgered out? Not sure how to auto-login a user; all my startup scripts run from rc.d.

I have the free X server Xming on my laptop - so I just ssh into my headless box, tunnel X11 over SSH, make sure the display variable is set and then I can start any X app from the command line and see it on the PC.
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Old Posted 07-29-2008, 04:45 AM in reply to pconroy's post starting "Did you get this figgered out? Not..."
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1. Edit ~/.vnc/xstartup
2. For KDE, replace "twm &" with "startkde &"
3. For Gnome, replace "twm &" with "exec gnome-session &"
4. Kill any existing VNC servers with "vncserver -kill :xxx" where xxx is the display number.
5. Start a new server.
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Old Posted 07-29-2008, 04:34 PM in reply to mike's post starting "1. Edit ~/.vnc/xstartup 2. For KDE,..."
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Mike- still needs to login, rite?
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Old Posted 07-29-2008, 11:14 PM in reply to pconroy's post starting "Mike- still needs to login, rite?"
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Yes, but that will start the correct windows manager.
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Old Posted 07-30-2008, 12:30 AM in reply to pconroy's post starting "Mike- still needs to login, rite?"
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Mike- still needs to login, rite?
Doesn't have to log in local, though. A PuTTY login will work great, that's exactly how I run X/KDE on my headless* Debian machine here at the Castle.

*it does have a neck stump, there's a video adapter that nothing's connected to.
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Old Posted 07-30-2008, 03:21 PM in reply to Dave Arbuckle's post starting "Doesn't have to log in local, though. A..."
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ditto. PuTTY is great. Tunnels VNC, tunnels X. Amazing.
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