Pi and ssh connection without sacrificing the GUI advantages

RE: Pi and ssh connection without sacrificing the GUI advantages

mconners — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:56:48 GMT

Great write up Balearic Dynamics , I must have missed it. Clem alerted me to it when commenting on this post

Taking Advantage of X Windows on Raspberry Pi

Mike

RE: Pi and ssh connection without sacrificing the GUI advantages

johnbeetem — Fri, 08 May 2015 18:53:56 GMT

I didn't know about the -Y option, so thank you for sharing. It looks a lot easier than setting up DISPLAY=xxx on the remote (client) machine and adding xhost on the local (server) machine.

Yes, the client/server nomenclature seems backwards for X Windows since you're interacting with the X Windows screen (the server) and your program (the client) may be on another machine. Usually the client is local and the server is remote, but the opposite is true of X Windows. Fortunately, I had to figure this out back in 1990 so I'm used to it now :-)

RE: Pi and ssh connection without sacrificing the GUI advantages

screamingtiger — Fri, 08 May 2015 14:58:56 GMT

The term for this is called "Throwing Windows" and there have been X servers for windows for years using SSH Tunnels.

Personally VNC is probably better for me as I don't like to installed drivers on windows 8.1 because all it does is crash [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-4c663365-1c17-476c-99b7-ebc3aef71182/3603.contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

Not sure if a VNC server exists for RPi, I am sure it does.

RE: Pi and ssh connection without sacrificing the GUI advantages

shabaz — Fri, 08 May 2015 13:07:46 GMT

Hi Enrico,

This only works if your computer is a Mac or a Linux box, because (as far as I know) Windows does not ship with X client app. There are (probably free) downloadable ones, for Windows though.

Another option is VNC, but it is too sluggish.

A nice all-round option for Windows users is Remote Desktop - quicker than VNC, and the viewer is built-in to Windows.

However, the question often needs to be asked, why do this, because another choice is to avoid a remote GUI/desktop entirely, since the Mac or PC will have better performance than the RPI, so if you have both at your

disposal then better to split the tasks, i.e. use a local app on the PC, and then transfer the file to the RPI when needed.

Just speeding up a workflow by a second or two for a repetitive task can have a massive effect on productivity.

RE: Pi and ssh connection without sacrificing the GUI advantages

Workshopshed — Fri, 08 May 2015 09:31:12 GMT

I remember people doing that at college with the old Unix boxes, I don't think it helps that the term "server" is the opposite to what it typically means. It always seemed a bit Voodooish to me. Looking at the manual you'd never guess what it did if you were new to the platform.

-Y

Enables trusted X11 forwarding. Trusted X11 forwardings are not subjected to the X11 SECURITY extension controls.

RE: Pi and ssh connection without sacrificing the GUI advantages

clem57 — Fri, 08 May 2015 08:53:01 GMT

I like and did not know this one. Thanks

Clem