X Server
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Remote connection to X server
X Server side - remote host
Enable the X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP). This protocol allows users to remotely log in to a desktop environment from any X Window System compatible client. To enable this you need to edit graphical login manager/display manager configuration file:
- KDM - /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
- Light DM - /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf in Ubuntu
- GDM - /etc/gdm/custom.conf and add
[XDMCPServer] Enable=true - GDM3 -/etc/gdm3/daemon.conf
Optional: Tell your X11 server machine (your desktop) to accept X11 connections from the client machine
xhost +X11_client_ip #very old thing
Start Login Manager if needed. This command veries depends on Linux distribution.
$ sudo service gdm start
Client side
Enable X forwarding in /etc/ssh/ssh_config file or in your user profile ~/.ssh/ssh_config
vi /etc/ssh/ssh_config ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes ForwardX11Trusted yes # X11Forwarding yes #breaking config : Bad configuration option: x11forwarding
Connect to X server over ssh and can start KDE, but also
$ DISPLAY=0:0; ssh -Y -f examplelinuxserver.com startkde # -X enables and sets defaults for X11 forwarding # -Y enables trusted X11 forwarding # -f option backgrounds ssh and the remote command “sleep 10” to start service to be tunnelled. If don't start within 10s ssh'll exit.
Resources
- Ubuntu 12.04 Official wiki
Windows X servers
- Xming xming-7-5-0-29-setup.exe md5 9d026c1931a40d12313d59eddffa947a, only version 6.9.x is available to download for free
- Atom from U15.10 runs on it but it seems sluggish, session over ssh not XDMCP
- VcXsrv same as Xming but compiled using Visual Studio, available in 64bit, it's just Xorg built using MSVC instead of GCC
- Cygwin's X server