[winswitch] Using xpra in ssh -X

[Antoine Martin]

On 01/05/14 15:41, V V wrote:
> At the moment I am doing "xpra start :100 --start-child=xterm" on the
> server, then "xpra attach ssh:serverhostname:100" on the client. Then
> I use gnuplot (for example) which is mostly terminal work but also
> launches windows with the plots. When I am finised I do "xpra stop".
You may want to simplify this a bit:
xpra start ssh:SERVER:100 --start-child=xterm --exit-with-children
(no need to ssh, exit the xterm to stop the session)
> The alternative is using "ssh -X" from the client and then starting
> gnuplot. The advantage of the second method is that the terminal
> emulator is running on the client. However this method is very slow.
Then you could also do this on the server after you "ssh -X":
xpra start :100
DISPLAY=:100 gnuplot
Then attach as normal.
The downside is that if your ssh connection goes down.. gnuplot will die.
But then you should be able to use screen or tmux to workaround that.

Antoine

>
> Vladimir
>
>
> On 30/04/14 15:25, V V wrote:
>> * If xpra is installed on the server and client, is it possible to make it so
> *>* that when ssh connection with X forwarding (i.e. ssh -X ...) is done from
> *>* client to server, xpra is used underneath?
> *I'm not sure I understand what it is that you are trying to do.
> If you are already connecting to xpra over ssh and want to use the ssh
> connection sharing feature. (openssh "ControlMaster")
> This should already work, but you may be interested in adding:
> "--no-exit-ssh" to your command line, or to your .xpra/xpra.conf
> If you are connecting to xpra over tcp, then this is not possible at
> present.
>
> Antoine
>> * This is just for convenience really. I know you can just start xterm on
> *>* server and then access it from client.*
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