Remote KDE apps on Windows HowTo?

[Rob Brandt]

Thanks;

I had some ssh probs and some other distractions, so I am just now 
getting back to this.

This is the method I'm after, I think:

> Another way is to connect the server using ssh and open a kicker 
> panel on your
> pc.
>
> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0
> xwin -multiwindow &
> xhost +
> ssh user at host
> export DISPLAY=<your_host_ip_address>:0
> kicker &

I created a script as above but with my host IP address.  I have ssh 
configured for password prompt, because I need to be able to log in 
from various places without need to generate local keys.  When I run my 
script, I get a Password: prompt that seems to alternate in results, 
neither of them good.  On the first attempt, when I type in the 
password it actually appears in clear text as I type it, and then when 
I hit Enter I get a bash response that there is no program with my 
password name.  So it looks like it's a prompt for a password, but 
seems to be passing the results to bash to be processed as a program.  
I then try and run the script again, and this time when I try typing in 
the password no characters appear as I type (which is good) but when I 
hit enter, nothing happens.

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but I'm a newbie on this.

* Your original message said I needed to enable xdmp in 
/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager.  It appears that applies just to the 
-xwin method; does it apply to the ssh/kicker method too?  It currently 
defaults to kdm; what does changing this do to local sessions at the 
console?

* Is there a change I need to make in the script to account for the 
password prompt, or will that even work in this configuration?

Thanks
-- 
Best Regards

Rob



Quoting Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker at freenet.de>:

> Am Freitag, 22. Juli 2005 01:36 schrieb Rob Brandt:
>> You have a quote on your home project page:
>>
>> "use KDE on Windows XP for easy remote running of my KDE applications
>> on my Mandrake Linux server box. When I need to configure my server or
>> make a fast edit of a webpage, or even move files around, nothing is
>> easier than to simply load up KDE and ssh -X . (from Serious use of KDE
>> on Windows?)" I would like to know how to do this. I have found many
>> alternative ways of doing similar to this, but not exactly, and my
>> efforts so far have failed. I have Cygwin and KDE on Cygwin installed
>> and working on my WinXP system; I can get an X session to my server
>> through ssh using startxwin.bat, which uses xterm.. What do I do to get
>> a KDE session from my SuSE server on my PC? Thanks.
>>
> The server must enabled xdmp protocol. /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager
> Then start from a bash shell
>
> 	xwin -query host -from $COMPUTERNAME &
>
> Another way is to connect the server using ssh and open a kicker 
> panel on your
> pc.
>
> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0
> xwin -multiwindow &
> xhost +
> ssh user at host
> export DISPLAY=<your_host_ip_address>:0
> kicker &
>
>
> regards
> Ralf
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