[LUGSB] SSH Help?

[Chris Wright]

2008/11/5 Tam Nguyen <tamsanh at gmail.com>:
> 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'

There are two ways you can do this:
- You can run the GUI locally on the linux machine.
It's bound to an X server on the local machine. So this way, you won't
be able to use the amarok GUI from another computer.

- You can run the GUI on the remote machine.
Again, the GUI needs an X server in order to display anything, and
since it's displaying on your Vista machine, it needs an X server
there. Then the GUI will be bound to an X server on that one remote
machine.

Once an application uses an X server, it's usually bound to that X
server forever. VNC works by having an X server that forwards
everything to another X server, and VNC knows how to rebind its X
server to another X server. (At least, that's what it probably does.
It'd be the most straightforward way of doing things.)

You really want something where the GUI is not related to any other
portion of the music player. mpd might be a reasonable option; I think
it uses dbus for control. But then you need an mpd gui that can handle
that.