[LUGSB] SSH Help?

[Tam Nguyen]

I don't understand why I would need an X server on the windows side, because
I'm running the applications on Ubuntu's side, just controlling them from
the windows machine. And inside the */etc/ssh/sshd_config file, I've got the
X11Forwarding option set to 'yes'*

VNC was my earlier solution to this problem, but the thing is that this
laptop is particularly old, and doesn't like running Amarok while being
VNC'd on, resulting in an uncontrollable computer.

That Amarok PHP controller was definitely very interesting, but it seems to
require a bit of set up.

I've taken the iniative to look around for music players that don't require
an GUI, and found a great one called orpheus. I've been playing around with
it, and it's pretty well off so far. It has an option that allows you to
control an already-running orpheus process, so I can use 'orpheus -r <cmd>'
in the ssh window to control the other's music. That, coupled with
alsamixer, has pretty much gotten me the effect I wanted: controlling
currently playing tracks, adding new tracks, and adjusting volume.

But the real reason I wanted to do this was because I felt this simple set
up would be a good excercise in using ssh. I still don't understand the X
server requirement. Shouldn't that X11Forwarding option cover that? I was
following the tutorial on the ubuntu wiki (
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHHowto), and it didn't mention anything
about X servers except for nested windows, or something.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Benjamin Kudria <ben at kudria.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:47, Tam Nguyen <tamsanh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Reading the page, it doesn't say that it supports Vista. I was also
> hoping
> > to just use putty so that it would be easy for my dorm mates to control
> the
> > ubuntu laptop.
>
> Is there a reason they can't just control the Ubuntu laptop?  Or,
> there are plenty of web-enabled music servers.  These scripts will
> provide a web interface to Amarok:
>
> http://greyhound.enanocms.org/index
> http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=25398
>
> > Why an X server would help me out, anyway?
>
> An X server is required to run almost all graphical applications under
> Linux, or remotely.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> -Ben
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