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Re: Pull gui emacs across an ssh connection
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Pull gui emacs across an ssh connection |
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Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:33:03 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.5098.1239401875.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> I know this subject has come up many times but I'm getting confused by
> the google hits more than helped.
>
> For yrs I've connected to remote machines and ran the on host emacs
> via ssh connection. Sometime connecting with with emacs to the remote
> host with tramp. But I've never really tried to make the remote emacs
> run in gui form on the local display.. Just using emacs as -nw when
> using ssh.
>
> I'm running gentoo linux on a home lan with opensolaris and windows
> hosts present. What variables need to be in place to run the emacs
> installed on the remote... and make it appear in gui format on my
> local desktop. (I'm not taking about involving windows machines in
> this)
>
> I know about permitting X in ssh_config and sshd_config or even with
> the ssh cmdline -X but as I recall other things need to be adjusted
> too.
As long as $DISPLAY is set in the window where you run ssh, you
shouldn't need to do anything else.
> And too, is it even worthwhile doing, like is it annoyingly slow or
> something? I have gigabit lan in most cases and 10/100 is the slowed
> that might come up. And it is a very low usage lan.
I did it many years ago on 10 Mbps LANs. It should be perfectly fine on
modern 100 meg and gigabit LANs.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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